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A high-efficiency fast neutron detector prototype based on a triple Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector, which coupled with a novel multi-layered High-Density PolyEthylene (HDPE) as a neutron-to-proton converter for improving the neutron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 Xiao-Dong Wang , He-Run Yang , Zhong-Guo Ren , Jun-Wei Zhang , Lei Yang , Chun-Hui Zhang , Ri-Ba-La Ha , Lv-Xing An

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

Triple Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors will be used as a tracking device in the first two stations of CBM MUon CHamber (MUCH), where the maximum particle rate is expected to reach ~1 MHz/cm2 for central Au-Au collisions at 8 AGeV.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-05 S. Chatterjee , U. Frankenfeld , C. Garabatos , J. Hehner , T. Morhardt , C. J. Schmidt , H. R. Schmidt , C. A. Lymanets , S. Biswas

A study has been carried out to evaluate the performance stability of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) chamber prototypes in the laboratory using $^{55}$Fe radiation source with Argon and CO$_2$ gas mixture. This research focuses on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-10 S. Mandal , S. Gope , S. Das , S. Biswas

A large number of high-energy and heavy-ion experiments successfully used Time Projection Chamber (TPC) as central tracker and particle identification detector. However, the performance requirements on TPC for new high-rate particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-02-14 M. Poli Lener , M. Bazzi , G. Corradi , C. Curceanu , A. D'Uffizi , C. Paglia , A. Romero Vidal , E. Sbardella , A. Scordo , D. Tagnani , J. Zmeskal

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

Spatial resolution of less than 200 um is challenging for thermal neutron detection. A novel readout scheme based on the time-projection-chamber (TPC) concept is used in a gaseous electron multiplier (GEM) detector. Thermal neutrons are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-22 Bernhard Flierl , Otmar Biebel , Ralf Hertenberger , Karl Zeitelhack

A new gas detector prototype for the upgrade of the focal plane detector of the MAGNEX large-acceptance magnetic spectrometer has been developed and tested in view of the NUMEN project. It has been designed to operate at low gas pressure…

Characteristics of triple GEM detector have been studied systematically. The variation of the effective gain and energy resolution of GEM with variation of the applied voltage has been measured with Fe55 X-ray source for different gas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Biswas , A. Abuhoza , U. Frankenfeld , J. Hehner , C. J. Schmidt , H. R. Schmidt , M. Traeger , S. Colafranceschi , A. Marinov , A. Sharma

The Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector is one of the advanced members of the Micro Pattern Gas Detector (MPGD) family, used in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments as a tracking device due to its high rate handling capability and good…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-23 S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , S. Das , S. Biswas

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 Gaseous Electron Multiplier-based Time Projection Chamber (GEM-TPC) in TWIN configuration for particle tracking has been consolidated after extensive investigations in different facilities to study its tracking performance. The most…

In recent years Gas Electron Multipliers have proven to be reliable amplification stages at high beam rates, and can be used also in Time Projection Chambers. Our group developed a 1 dm$^3$ active volume double-GEM TPC, with spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-07 Gábor Galgóczi , Gergő Hamar , Péter Pázmándi , Dezső Varga

A large volume time projection chamber (TPC) has been proposed as main tracking device for a detector at a future linear e+e- collider. Gas electron multipliers (GEMs) are studied as potential replacement of the conventional wire based gas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Wienemann

We study the feedback of positive ions in triple and quadruple Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors. The effects of GEM hole diameter, detector gain, applied voltages, number of GEMs and other parameters on ion feedback are investigated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Bondar , A. Buzulutskov , L. Shekhtman , A. Vasiljev

Triple-GEM detectors for the GE2/1 and ME0 stations of the endcap muon system for the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS Experiment have been operated in a test beam to measure their efficiency and spatial resolution, together with a high spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-23 Antonello Pellecchia , Piet Verwilligen , Anna Stamerra

The characteristics of triple GEM detectors have been studied systematically by using cosmic ray muons. The minimum ionizing particle (MIP) spectra has been taken for different GEM voltage setting. Efficiency of GEM detector has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Biswas , D. J. Schmidt , A. Abuhoza , U. Frankenfeld , C. Garabatos , J. Hehner , V. Kleipa , T. Morhardt , C. J. Schmidt , H. R. Schmidt , J. Wiechula

The characteristic studies of a Single Mask~(SM) triple Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector are carried out using Ar/CO$_2$ gas mixture in 70/30 volume ratio in continuous flow mode. A Fe$^{55}$ X-ray source is used for this work. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-30 S. Chatterjee , A. Sen , S. Das , S. Biswas

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 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