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We review latest progress in gaseous photomultipliers (GPM) combining solid photocathodes and various types of novel electron multipliers. Cascaded gaseous electron multipliers (GEM) coated with CsI photocathodes can efficiently replace…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Chechik , A. Breskin

To extend the acceptance of the CMS muon spectrometer to the region 2.4 $<|\eta|<$ 2.8, stacks of triple-GEM chambers, forming the ME0 station, are planned for the CMS Phase 2 Upgrade. These large-area micro-pattern gaseous detectors must…

We have simulated the performances of a GEM with a large density of multiplication holes. In particular in this note we fully simulate the GEM detector used in the PixiE experiment. The detector will be employed in the measurement of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Marina Del Prete

The Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors are widely used in high-energy physics (HEP) experiments as tracking devices because of their excellent position resolution and to handle high particle rates capability. Charging-up effect is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-06 S. Mandal , S. Ghosh , S. Das , S. Biswas

The planned tracking upgrade of the STAR experiment at RHIC includes a large-area GEM tracker used to determine the charge sign of electrons and positrons produced from W+(-) decays. For such a large-scale project commercial availability of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Simon , B. Azmoun , U. Becker , L. Burns , D. Crary , K. Kearney , G. Keeler , R. Majka , K. Paton , G. Saini , N. Smirnov , B. Surrow , C. Woody

The operation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (THGEM) in Ne and Ne/CH4 mixtures, features high multiplication factors at relatively low operation potentials, in both single- and double-THGEM configurations. We present some systematic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-11 M. Cortesi , V. Peskov , G. Bartesaghi , J. Miyamoto , S. Cohen , R. Chechik , J. M. Maia , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Gambarini , V. Dangendorf , A. Breskin

We present a concept to improve the spatial resolution of silicon pixel-detectors via the implementation of a sub-pixel cross-coupling, which introduces directional charge sharing between pixels. The charge-collection electrode is segmented…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-24 Sinuo Zhang , David-Leon Pohl , Tomasz Hemperek , Jochen Dingfelder

A cylindrical GEM tracker is under construction in order to replace and improve the inner tracking system of the BESIII experiment. Tests with planar chamber prototypes were carried out on the H4 beam line of SPS (CERN) with muons of 150…

Gas electron Multipliers (GEM) are a new generation of gaseous avalanche devices in the Micro Patterned Gaseous Detector category. GEMs are widely used in both nuclear and high energy experiments as well as in medical science. Several…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Senta V. Greene , Julia Velkovska , Brandon Blankenship , Michael Z. Reynolds , Sourav Tarafdar

To solve the discharge of the standard Bulk Micromegas and GEM detector, the GEM-Micromegas detector was developed in Institute of High Energy Physics. Taking into account the advantages of the two detectors, one GEM foil was set as a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-15 YuLian Zhang , HuiRong Qi , BiTao Hu , ShengNan Fan , Bo Wang , Mei Liu , Jian Zhang , RongGuang Liu , GuangCai Chang , Peng Liu , Qun Ouyang , YuanBo Chen , FuTing Yi

Large-size hybrid and pixelized GEM-Micromegas gaseous detectors (40x40 cm$^2$ active area) were developed and installed in 2014 and 2015 for the COMPASS2 physics program which started at the same time. That program involved in particular…

We present the results of our recent studies on a Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM)-based imaging detector prototype. It consists of two 100x100 mm^2 THGEM electrodes in cascade, coupled to a resistive anode. The event location is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Cortesi , R. Alon , R. Chechik , A. Breskin , D. Vartsky , V. Dangendorf

We measured the properties of a novel combination of two Gas Electron Multipliers with a Micromegas for use as amplification devices in high-rate gaseous time projection chambers. The goal of this design is to minimize the buildup of space…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-21 S. Aiola , R. J. Ehlers , S. Gu , J. W. Harris , R. Majka , J. D. Mulligan , M. Oliver , J. Schambach , N. Smirnov

Many experiments are currently using or proposing to use large area GEM foils in their detectors, which is creating a need for commercially available GEM foils. Currently CERN is the only main distributor of large GEM foils, however with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-13 M. Posik , B. Surrow

An approximate formula has been derived for gain fluctuations in cascaded gaseous detectors such as GEM-s, based on the assumption that the charge collection, avalanche formation and extraction steps are independent cascaded processes. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-24 Dezső Varga

We developed a prototype time projection chamber using gas electron multipliers (GEM-TPC) for high energy heavy ion collision experiments. To investigate its performance, we conducted a beam test with 3 kinds of gases (Ar(90%)-CH4(10%),…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 S. X. Oda , H. Hamagaki , K. Ozawa , M. Inuzuka , T. Sakaguchi , T. Isobe , T. Gunji , Y. Morino , S. Saito , Y. L. Yamaguchi , S. Sawada , S. Yokkaichi

We describe a new micro-pattern gas detector structure comprising a multi-layer hole-type multiplier (M-THGEM) combined with two in-built electrode meshes: the Multi-Mesh THGEM-type multiplier (MM-THGEM). Suitable potential differences…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-01 Rui de Olivera , Marco Cortesi

Spatial resolution is a significant factor in the GEM performance in view of X-rays radiography and UV, visible light imaging. Monte-Carlo method is used to investigate the spatial resolution determined by the transverse diffusion in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-12-13 Yang Lan-Lan , Tu Yan , MA Shan-Le , Zhang Pan-Pan

The Silicon Electron Multiplier (SiEM) is a novel sensor concept for minimum ionizing particle (MIP) detection which uses internal gain and fine pitch to achieve excellent temporal and spatial resolution. In contrast to sensors where the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-16 Marius Mæhlum Halvorsen , Victor Coco , Evangelos Leonidas Gkougkousis , Paula Collins , Olivier Girard