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A centenary after the invention of the basic principle of gas amplification, gaseous detectors - are still the first choice whenever the large area coverage with low material budget is required. Advances in photo-lithography and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-08-16 Maxim Titov

We have recently developed an innovative detector of photons and charged particles: a GEM-like gaseous amplification structure with resistive electrodes instead of commonly used metallic ones. This novel detector combines the best property…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-12 P. Fonte , P. Martinengo , E. Nappi , R. Oliveira , V. Peskov

The advancement of Micro Pattern Gaseous Detector technology offers us different kinds of detectors with good spatial resolution and high rate capability and the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector is one of them. Typically GEM is made…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , S. Roy , K. Nivedita G , A. Paul , S. Das , S. Biswas

The new beam profile measurement for the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN is based on a single Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) with a 2D readout structure. This detector is very light (~0.4% X0), and measures horizontal and vertical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-20 Serge Duarte Pinto , Rhodri Jones , Leszek Ropelewski , Jens Spanggaard , Gerard Tranquille

We describe here various detectors designs: GEM type, MICROMEGAStype, PPACtype as well as cascaded detectors made of a resistive mesh manufactured from a resistive Kapton foil, (20 microns thick, resistivity a few MOhm per square) by a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-11 R. Oliveira , V. Peskov , F. Pietropaolo , P. Picchi

A new readout technique was developed with the primary aim of keeping the number of channels in the front-end electronics as low as possible when scaling up the sensitive area of a Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC). The readout method here…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-16 João Pedro de Carvalho Saraiva , Alberto Blanco Castro

Gas detector are very light instrument used in high energy physics to measure the particle properties: position and momentum. Through high electric field is possible to use the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology to detect the charged…

We have constructed and tested a 2d position sensitive parallel-plate gas ionization chamber with scanned charge transfer readout. The scan readout method described here is based on the development of a new position dependent charge…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Gomez , A. Iglesias , R. Lobato , J. Mosquera , J. Pardo , J. Pena , A. Pazos , M. Pombar , A. Rodriguez

The triple GEM detector is a micropattern gas detector which consists of a primary ionisation gap and three consecutive gas electron multiplier (GEM) foils. A printed circuit board with readout strips detects the current induced by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Ziegler , P. Sievers , U. Straumann

The new beam profile measurement for the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN is based on a single Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) with a 2D readout structure. This detector is very light, ~0.4% X0, as required by the low energy of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-20 Serge Duarte Pinto , Rhodri Jones , Leszek Ropelewski , Jens Spanggaard , Gerard Tranquille

Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) are among the more prominent Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) and widely used in high energy particle physics experiments and various related applications. Adoption of different production techniques…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-06 Promita Roy , Purba Bhattacharya , Prasant Kumar Rout , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Nayana Majumdar , Sandip Sarkar

Digital signal processing techniques were employed to investigate the joint use of charge division and risetime analyses for the resistive anode (RA) coupled to a microchannel plate detector (MCP). In contrast to the typical approach of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 Davinder Siwal , B. B. Wiggins , R. T. deSouza

Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) represent a category of gaseous ionization detectors that utilize microelectronics. They feature a remarkably small distance between the high potential difference anode and cathode electrodes and are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-08 Md Kaosor Ali Mondal , Poojan Angiras , Sachin Rana , A. Sarkar

The Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector is one of promising particle and radiation detectors that has been improved greatly from previous gas detectors. The improvement includes better spatial resolutions, higher detection rate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-28 Kiadtisak Saenboonruang , Piyakul Kumphiranon , Kittipong Kulasri , Anawat Ritthirong

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is a cutting edge Micro Pattern Gaseous detector (MPGD) technology suitable as tracking device in high rate Heavy-Ion (HI) experiments for their good spatial resolution and most importantly high rate handling…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-07 S. Mandal , S. Gope , S. Das , S. Biswas

A new particle detector with sub-nanosecond time resolution capable of working in high-rate environment (rate capability of the order of $MHz/ cm^2$) is under developmnet. Semiconductive electrodes with resistivity $\rho$ up to $10^8…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 A. Rocchi , R. Cardarelli , G. Aielli , E. Alunno Camelia , S. Bruno , A. Caltabiano , P. Camarri , A. Di Ciaccio , B. Liberti , L. Massa , L. Pizzimento

As demonstrated by the ATLAS New Small Wheel community with their MicroMegas (MM) design, resistive electrodes are now used in different detector types within the Micro Pattern Gaseous Detector family to improve their robustness or…

We present a comprehensive characterization of resistive PICOSEC Micromegas detector prototypes, tested under identical conditions, constant drift gap, field configurations, and photocathode at the CERN SPS H4 beam line. This work provides…

Three Gas-Electron-Multiplier tracking detectors with an active area of 10 cm x 10 cm and a two-dimensional, laser-etched orthogonal strip readout have been tested extensively in particle beams at the Meson Test Beam Facility at Fermilab.…

Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) are used for tracking in High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics because of their large area, excellent spatial resolution capabilities and low cost. However, for high energy charged particles…