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The gain measurements of several 1 mm-thick, 10$\times$10 cm$^2$ Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (ThGEMs), operated in pure argon at 3.3 bar and room temperature are presented. Electrostatic simulations, performed with the COMSOL…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-07 G. Eurin , A. Delbart , R. De Oliveira , A. Drozd , P. Granger , M. Karolak , B. Mehl

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

Optical readout of Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) provides very interesting performances and has been proposed for different applications in particle physics. In particular, thanks to its good efficiency in the keV energy range, it is being…

With the advancement of the accelerator systems and the requirements of high luminosity particle beams to reach different physics goals, detectors with good position resolution and high rate handling capability have become essential for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-15 S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , S. Das , S. K. Ghosh , S. Biswas

Study of the uniformity of gain, energy resolution and count rate over active area of a triple GEM detector has been performed using a strong Fe55 X-ray source with premixed gas of Argon and CO2 in 70/30 ratio and conventional NIM…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-24 S. Chatterjee , S. Chakraborty , S. Roy , S. Biswas , S. Das , S. K. Ghosh , S. K. Prasad , S. Raha

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector, one of the advanced members of the Micro Pattern Gas Detector (MPGD) group, is widely used in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. The high rate handling capability and spatial resolution make it a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-17 S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , R. Paul , S. Sahai , S. Das , S. Biswas

We report on the performance of a Micro-Hole & Strip Plate (MHSP) electron multiplier operating in pure Xe, Kr, Ar and Ne at the pressure range of 1 to 6 bar. The maximal gains at 1 bar Xe and Kr are 50000 and 100000, respectively; they…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 F. D. Amaro , J. F. C. A. Veloso , A. Breskin , R. Chechik , J. M. F. dos Santos

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

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors, typically featuring a standard pitch size of 140 $\mu$m and an inner hole diameter of 50 $\mu$m, are extensively utilized in high-energy physics experiments for tracking, triggering, and timing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-07 Rajiv Gupta , Gauri Devi , Sunidhi Saxena , Arpit Singh , Ajay Kumar

Advances in fabrication techniques and high-performance electronics have facilitated the development of fine-pitch Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs). Earlier experimental and simulation findings suggest that these reduced-pitch GEMs can…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-16 Rajiv Gupta , Sunidhi Saxena , Ajay Kumar

Gas electron multipliers (GEMs) have been overcoated with a high resistivity 10e14 - 10e15 Ohms / square amorphous carbon layer. The coating avoids charging up of the holes and provides a constant gain immediately after switching on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Beirle , U. Werthenbach , G. Zech , T. Zeuner

The properties of thick GEM-like (TGEM) gaseous electron multipliers, operated at 1-740 Torr are presented. They are made of a G-10 plate, perforated with millimeter-scale diameter holes. In single-multiplier elements, effective gains of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Chechik , A. Breskin , C. Shalem , D. Moermann

In view of a possible application as a charge-particle track readout for an Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC), the operating properties of THick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (THGEM) in pure low-pressure Helium were…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 Marco Cortesi , John Yurkon , Andreas Stolz

We present a comprehensive computational study of the electronic, thermal, and thermoelectric (TE) properties of gallium nitride nanowires (NWs) over a wide range of thicknesses (3--9 nm), doping densities ($10^{18}$--$10^{20}$ cm$^{-3}$),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 A. H. Davoody , E. B. Ramayya , L. N. Maurer , I. Knezevic

A quadruple GEM detector has been assembled in a standalone configuration and operated using Ar and CO$_2$ gas mixtures in proportions of 70:30 and 90:10. Detailed performance study of the detector has been made by using $^{106}$Ru-Rh…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-09 Rajendra Nath Patra , Rama Narayan Singaraju , Saikat Biswas , Yogendra P. Viyogi , Tapan K. Nayak

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is one of the devices for gas amplification and available as an amplification part of detectors for many experiments. A GEM with a 50 $\mu m$ thick insulator is popular and widely used in many experimental…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-20 Tomohisa Ogawa , Yumi Aoki

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

We present a systematic investigation of the gain properties of a gas electron multiplier (GEM) foil in pure dimethyl ether (DME) at low pressures. The GEM is made from copper- clad liquid crystal polymer insulator (LCP-GEM) designed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-15 Y. Takeuchi , T. Tamagawa , T. Kitaguchi , S. Yamada , W. Iwakiri , F. Asami , A. Yoshikawa , K. Kaneko , T. Enoto , A. Hayato , T. Kohmura , the GEMS/XACT team

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