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Measurements of Angle-Resolved Reflectivity of PTFE in Liquid Xenon with IBEX

Liquid xenon particle detectors rely on excellent light collection efficiency for their performance. This depends on the high reflectivity of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) at the xenon scintillation wavelength of 178 nm, but the angular…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-31 S. Kravitz , R. J. Smith , L. Hagaman , E. P. Bernard , D. N. McKinsey , L. Rudd , L. Tvrznikova , G. D. Orebi Gann , M. Sakai

Photon detector system timing performance in the DUNE 35-ton prototype liquid argon time projection chamber

The 35-ton prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment far detector was a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber with an integrated photon detector system, all situated inside a membrane cryostat. The detector took…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-25 D. L. Adams , T. Alion , J. T. Anderson , L. Bagby , M. Baird , G. Barr , N. Barros , K. Biery , A. Blake , E. Blaufuss , T. Boone , A. Booth , D. Brailsford , N. Buchanan , A. Chatterjee , M. Convery , J. Davies , T. Dealtry , P. DeLurgio , G. Deuerling , R. Dharmapalan , Z. Djurcic , G. Drake , B. Eberly , J. Freeman , S. Glavin , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , M. Graham , A. Hahn , J. T. Haigh , J. Hartnell , A. Higuera , A. Himmel , J. Insler , J. Jacobsen , T. Junk , B. Kirby , J. Klein , V. A. Kudryavtsev , T. Kutter , Y. Li , X. Li , S. Lin , J. Martin-Albo , N. McConkey , C. A. Moura , S. Mufson , T. C. Nicholls , J. Nowak , M. Oberling , J. Paley , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , D. Rivera , G. Santucci , G. Sinev , N. J. C. Spooner , M. Stancari , I. Stancu , D. Stefan , J. Stewart , J. Stock , T. Strauss , R. Sulej , Y. Sun , M. Thiesse , L. F. Thompson , Y. T. Tsai , M. Wallbank , T. K. Warburton , D. Warner , D. Whittington , R. J. Wilson , M. Worcester , E. Worcester , T. Yang , C. Zhang

Supernova neutrino physics with xenon dark matter detectors: A timely perspective

Dark matter detectors that utilize liquid xenon have now achieved tonne-scale targets, giving them sensitivity to all flavours of supernova neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. Considering for the first time a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Rafael F. Lang , Christopher McCabe , Shayne Reichard , Marco Selvi , Irene Tamborra

PETALO read-out: A novel approach for data acquisition systems in PET applications

PETALO (a Positron Emission Tof Apparatus based on Liquid xenOn) is a new approach for Positron Emission Tomography scanners, based on liquid xenon. The PETALO detector aims at capturing the light produced by the scintillation in LXe taking…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-02 V. Herrero-Bosch , R. Gadea , R. J. Aliaga , J. Rodríguez , J. F. Toledo , R. Torres-Curado , F. Ballester , R. Esteve , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , P. Ferrario

Modeling the light response of an optically readout GEM based TPC for the CYGNO experiment

The use of gaseous Time Projection Chambers enables the detection and the detailed study of rare events due to particles interactions with the atoms of the gas with energy releases as low as a few keV. Due to this capability, these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-20 Fernando Dominques Amaro , Rita Antonietti , Elisabetta Baracchini , Luigi Benussi , Stefano Bianco , Roberto Campagnola , Cesidio Capoccia , Michele Caponero , Gianluca Cavoto , Igor Abritta Costa , Antonio Croce , Emiliano Danè , Melba D'Astolfo , Giorgio Dho , Flaminia Di Giambattista , Emanuele Di Marco , Giulia D'Imperio , Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos , Davide Fiorina , Francesco Iacoangeli , Zahoor Ul Islam , Herman Pessoa Lima Junior , Ernesto Kemp , Francesca Lewis , Giovanni Maccarrone , Rui Daniel Passos Mano , Robert Renz Marcelo Gregorio , David Josè Gaspar Marques , Luan Gomes Mattosinhos de Carvalho , Giovanni Mazzitelli , Alasdair Gregor McLean , Pietro Meloni , Andrea Messina , Cristina Maria Bernardes Monteiro , Rafael Antunes Nobrega , Igor Fonseca Pains , Matteo Pantalena , Emiliano Paoletti , Luciano Passamonti , Fabrizio Petrucci , Stefano Piacentini , Davide Piccolo , Daniele Pierluigi , Davide Pinci , Atul Prajapati , Francesco Renga , Rita Joana Cruz Roque , Filippo Rosatelli , Alessandro Russo , Sabrina Salamino , Giovanna Saviano , Federico Francesco Scamporlino , Angelo Serrecchia , Pedro Alberto Oliveira Costa Silva , Neil John Curwen Spooner , Roberto Tesauro , Sandro Tomassini , Samuele Torelli , Donatella Tozzi

Electroluminescence TPCs at the thermal diffusion limit

The NEXT experiment aims at searching for the hypothetical neutrinoless double-beta decay from the ${}^{136}$Xe isotope using a high-purity xenon TPC. Efficient discrimination of the events through pattern recognition of the topology of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-30 C. A. O. Henriques , C. M. B. Monteiro , D. González-Díaz , C. D. R Azevedo , E. D. C. Freitas , R. D. P. Mano , M. R. Jorge , A. F. M. Fernandes , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , L. M. P. Fernandes , C. Adams , V. Álvarez , L. Arazi , K. Bailey , F. Ballester , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Botas , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , C. A. N. Conde , J. Díaz , M. Diesburg , J. Escada , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , J. Generowicz , A. Goldschmidt , R. Guenette , R. M. Gutiérrez , K. Hafidi , J. Hauptman , A. I. Hernandez , J. A. Hernando Morata , V. Herrero , S. Johnston , B. J. P. Jones , M. Kekic , L. Labarga , A. Laing , P. Lebrun , N. López-March , M. Losada , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , G. Martínez-Lema , A. McDonald , F. Monrabal , F. J. Mora , J. Muñoz Vidal , M. Musti , M. Nebot-Guinot , P. Novella , D. R. Nygren , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , J. Pérez , F. Psihas , M. Querol , J. Renner , J. Repond , S. Riordan , L. Ripoll , J. Rodríguez , L. Rogers , C. Romo-Luque , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , A. Simón , C. Sofka , M. Sorel , T. Stiegler , J. F. Toledo , J. Torrent , J. F. C. A. Veloso , R. Webb , J. T. White , N. Yahlali

Expected performance of an ideal liquid argon neutrino detector with enhanced sensitivity to scintillation light

Scintillation light is used in liquid argon (LAr) neutrino detectors to provide a trigger signal, veto information against cosmic rays, and absolute event timing. In this work, we discuss additional opportunities offered by detectors with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-27 M. Sorel

Scintillation light calibrations, systematic uncertainties, and triggering efficiency in the MicroBooNE detector

Scintillation light, produced alongside ionisation charge from particle interactions, plays a critical role in liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detectors. A detailed understanding of its production and detection mechanisms is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-26 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , B. Behera , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , V. Bhelande , A. Binau , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , C. Fang , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , O. Hen , A. Hergenhan , M. Harrison , S. Hawkins , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hussain , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , A. Johnson , R. A. Johnson , D. Kalra , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , A. Kelly , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , K. Kumar , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , L. Liu , S. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , T. Mahmud , N. Majeed , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , F. Martinez Lopez , M. G. Manuel Alves , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , B. McConnell , L. Mellet , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. A. Hernandez Morquecho , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , L. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , R. Raymond , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , C. Sauer , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , L. Silva , E. L. Snider , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , L. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang , Y. Zhang

The XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment

The XENON100 dark matter experiment uses liquid xenon (LXe) in a time projection chamber (TPC) to search for Xe nuclear recoils resulting from the scattering of dark matter Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). In this paper we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-09 XENON100 Collaboration , E. Aprile , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , A. Askin , L. Baudis , A. Behrens , E. Brown , J. M. R. Cardoso , B. Choi , D. Cline , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , K. L. Giboni , A. Kish , C. W. Lam , R. F. Lang , K. E. Lim , J. A. M. Lopes , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , Y. Mei , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , E. Pantic , G. Plante , A. C. C. Ribeiro , R. Santorelli , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Schumann , P. Shagin , A. Teymourian , E. Tziaferi , H. Wang , M. Yamashita

NEXT-CRAB-0: A High Pressure Gaseous Xenon Time Projection Chamber with a Direct VUV Camera Based Readout

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) remains one of the most compelling experimental avenues for the discovery in the neutrino sector. Electroluminescent gas-phase time projection chambers are well suited to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-04 NEXT Collaboration , N. K. Byrnes , I. Parmaksiz , C. Adams , J. Asaadi , J Baeza-Rubio , K. Bailey , E. Church , D. González-Díaz , A. Higley , B. J. P. Jones , K. Mistry , I. A. Moya , D. R. Nygren , P. Oyedele , L. Rogers , K. Stogsdill , H. Almazán , V. Álvarez , B. Aparicio , A. I. Aranburu , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , S. Ayet , C. D. R. Azevedo , F. Ballester , M. del Barrio-Torregrosa , A. Bayo , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , S. Bounasser , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , L. Cid , C. A. N. Conde , T. Contreras , F. P. Cossío , E. Dey , G. Díaz , T. Dickel , M. Elorza , J. Escada , R. Esteve , A. Fahs , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , F. W. Foss , E. D. C. Freitas , Z. Freixa , J. Generowicz , A. Goldschmidt , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , R. González , J. Grocott , R. Guenette , J. Haefner , K. Hafidi , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , J. A. Hernando Morata , P. Herrero-Gómez , V. Herrero , C. Hervés Carrete , J. Ho , P. Ho , Y. Ifergan , L. Labarga , L. Larizgoitia , P. Lebrun , F Lopez , D. Lopez Gutierrez , N. López-March , R. Madigan , R. D. P. Mano , A. P. Marques , J. Martín-Albo , G. Martínez-Lema , M. Martínez-Vara , Z. E. Meziani , R. L. Miller , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , J. Muñoz Vidal , K. E. Navarro , P. Novella , A. Nuñez , E. Oblak , M. Odriozola-Gimeno , J. Palacio , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , J Pelegrin , M. Pérez Maneiro , M. Querol , A. B. Redwine , J. Renner , I. Rivilla , J. Rodríguez , C. Rogero , B. Romeo , C. Romo-Luque , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , A. Simón , S. R. Soleti , M. Sorel , C. Stanford , J. M. R. Teixeira , J. F. Toledo , J. Torrent , A. Usón , J. F. C. A. Veloso , T. T. Vuong , J. Waiton , J. T. White

Design and performance of a 35-ton liquid argon time projection chamber as a prototype for future very large detectors

Liquid argon time projection chamber technology is an attractive choice for large neutrino detectors, as it provides a high-resolution active target and it is expected to be scalable to very large masses. Consequently, it has been chosen as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 D. L. Adams , M. Baird , G. Barr , N. Barros , A. Blake , E. Blaufuss , A. Booth , D. Brailsford , N. Buchanan , B. Carls , H. Chen , M. Convery , G. De Geronimo , T. Dealtry , R. Dharmapalan , Z. Djurcic , J. Fowler , S. Glavin , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , M. Graham , L. Greenler , A. Hahn , J. Hartnell , R. Herbst , A. Higuera , A. Himmel , J. Insler , J. Jacobsen , T. Junk , B. Kirby , J. Klein , V. A. Kudryavtsev , T. Kutter , Y. Li , X. Li , S. Lin , N. McConkey , C. A. Moura , S. Mufson , N. Nambiar , J. Nowak , M. Nunes , R. Paulos , X. Qian , O. Rodrigues , W. Sands , G. Santucci , R. Sharma , G. Sinev , N. J. C. Spooner , I. Stancu , D. Stefan , J. Stewart , J. Stock , T. Strauss , R. Sulej , Y. Sun , M. Thiesse , L. F. Thompson , Y. T. Tsai , R. Van Berg , T. Vieira , M. Wallbank , H. Wang , Y. Wang , T. K. Warburton , D. Wenman , D. Whittington , R. J. Wilson , M. Worcester , T. Yang , B. Yu , C. Zhang

Phenylxylylethane (PXE): a high-density, high-flashpoint organic liquid scintillator for applications in low-energy particle and astrophysics experiments

We report on the study of a new liquid scintillator target for neutrino interactions in the framework of the research and development program of the BOREXINO solar neutrino experiment. The scintillator consists of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 Borexino Collaboration

Cryogenic Gaseous Photomultiplier for Position Reconstruction of Liquid Argon Scintillation Light

Presented here are first tests of a Gaseous Photomultiplier based on a cascade of Thick GEM structures intended for gamma-ray position reconstruction in liquid Argon. The detector has a MgF$_2$ window, transparent to VUV light, and a CsI…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-02 B. Lopez Paredes , C. D. R. Azevedo , S. Paganis , A. L. M. Silva , N. J. C. Spooner , J. F. C. A. Veloso

Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO

Liquid xenon time projection chambers are promising detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu \beta \beta$), due to their response uniformity, monolithic sensitive volume, scalability to large target masses, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-28 G. Gallina , Y. Guan , F. Retiere , G. Cao , A. Bolotnikov , I. Kotov , S. Rescia , A. K. Soma , T. Tsang , L. Darroch , T. Brunner , J. Bolster , J. R. Cohen , T. Pinto Franco , W. C. Gillis , H. Peltz Smalley , S. Thibado , A. Pocar , A. Bhat , A. Jamil , D. C. Moore , G. Adhikari , S. Al Kharusi , E. Angelico , I. J. Arnquist , P. Arsenault , I. Badhrees , J. Bane , V. Belov , E. P. Bernard , T. Bhatta , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , E. Caden , L. Cao , C. Chambers , B. Chana , S. A. Charlebois , D. Chernyak , M. Chiu , B. Cleveland , R. Collister , M. Cvitan , J. Dalmasson , T. Daniels , K. Deslandes , R. DeVoe , M. L. di Vacri , Y. Ding , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dragone , J. Echevers , B. Eckert , M. Elbeltagi , L. Fabris , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , Y. S. Fu , D. Gallacher , P. Gautam , G. Giacomini , C. Gingras , D. Goeldi , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , C. A. Hardy , S. Hedges , M. Heffner , E. Hein , J. Holt , E. W. Hoppe , J. Hößl , A. House , W. Hunt , A. Iverson , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , A. Larson , K. G. Leach , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , G. Lessard , G. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , R. Lindsay , R. MacLellan , M. Mahtab , S. Majidi , C. Malbrunot , P. Margetak , P. Martel-Dion , L. Martin , J. Masbou , N. Massacret , K. McMichael , B. Mong , K. Murray , J. Nattress , C. R. Natzke , X. E. Ngwadla , J. C. Nzobadila Ondze , A. Odian , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , C. T. Overman , S. Parent , A. Perna , A. Piepke , N. Pletskova , J. F. Pratte , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , G. J. Ramonnye , T. Rao , H. Rasiwala , K. Raymond , B. M. Rebeiro , G. Richardson , J. Ringuette , V. Riot , T. Rossignol , P. C. Rowson , L. Rudolph , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , X. Shang , F. Spadoni , V. Stekhanov , X. L. Sun , A. Tidball , T. Totev , S. Triambak , R. H. M. Tsang , O. A. Tyuka , F. Vachon , M. Vidal , S. Viel , G. Visser , M. Wagenpfeil , M. Walent , K. Wamba , Q. Wang , W. Wang , Y. Wang , M. Watts , W. Wei , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , S. Wilde , M. Worcester , W. H. Wu , X. Wu , L. Xie , W. Yan , H. Yang , L. Yang , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao , T. Ziegler

Intense Vacuum-Ultraviolet and Infrared Scintillation of Liquid Ar-Xe Mixtures

Vacuum ultraviolet light emission from xenon-doped liquid argon is described in the context of liquid noble gas particle detectors. Xenon concentrations in liquid argon from 0.1 ppm to 1000 ppm were studied. The energy transfer from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-25 A. Neumeier , T. Dandl , T. Heindl , A. Himpsl , L. Oberauer , W. Potzel , S. Roth , S. Schönert , J. Wieser , A. Ulrich

Performance of Prototypes with Different Reflector Materials for the SHiP Liquid Scintillator Surrounding Background Tagger

The baseline technology for the Surrounding Background Tagger of the recently approved SHiP experiment relies on liquid scintillator composed of linear alkylbenzene and 2,5-diphenyloxazole as active detector material. The primary…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-13 A. Brignoli , P. Deucher , C. Eckardt , F. Faller , H. Fischer , A. Hollnagel , A. Krolla , H. Lacker , F. Lyons , J. Molins i Bertram , T. Molzberger , A. S. Müller , S. Ochoa , A. Reghunath , T. Rock , M. Schaaf , C. Scharf , M. Schumann , J. M. Webb , J. Wenk , I. Wöstheinrich , M. Wurm

Studies of the effect of rate on gain for straw tube detector

Basic R & D have been carried out with one small straw tube detector prototype with premixed gas of Ar+CO2 in 70:30 and 90:10 ratio. The gain and the energy resolution are measured with Fe55 X-ray source. Effect of temperature and pressure…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-26 S. Roy , N. Nandi , R. P. Adak , S. Biswas , S. Das , S. K. Ghosh , S. K. Prasad , S. Raha

Absorption of Scintillation Light in a 100 $\ell$ Liquid Xenon$\gamma$ Ray Detector and Expected Detector Performance

An 800L liquid xenon scintillation $\gamma$ ray detector is being developed for the MEG experiment which will search for $\mu^+\to\mathrm{e}^+\gamma$ decay at the Paul Scherrer Institut. Absorption of scintillation light of xenon by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Baldini , C. Bemporad , F. Cei , T. Doke , M. Grassi , A. A. Grebenuk , D. N. Grigoriev , T. Haruyama , K. Kasami , J. Kikuchi , A. Maki , T. Mashimo , S. Mihara , T. Mitsuhashi , T. Mori , D. Nicolo` , H. Nishiguchi , W. Ootani , K. Ozone , A. Papa , R. Pazzi , S. Ritt , R. Sawada , F. Sergiampietri , G. Signorelli , S. Suzuki , K. Terasawa , M. Yamashita , S. Yamashita , T. Yoshimura , Yu. Yuri

HARPO: 1.7 - 74 MeV gamma-ray beam validation of a high angular resolutio n, high linear polarisation dilution, gas time projection chamber telescope and polarimeter

A presentation at the SciNeGHE conference of the past achievements, of the present activities and of the perspectives for the future of the HARPO project, the development of a time projection chamber as a high-performance gamma-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Denis Bernard

Micromegas with GEM preamplification for enhanced energy threshold in low-background gaseous time projection chambers

Background: we develop the concept of a Micromegas (MICRO-MEsh GAseous Structure) readout plane with an additional GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) preamplification stage placed a few mm above it, to increase the maximum effective gain of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-21 J. Castel , S. Cebrián , T. Dafni , D. Díez-Ibáñez , J. Galán , J. A. García , A. Ezquerro , I. G Irastorza , G. Luzón , C. Margalejo , H. Mirallas , L. Obis , A. Ortiz de Solórzano , O. Pérez , J. Porrón , M. J. Puyuelo