Development and applications of the imaging chamber

Author

Astier, P. ; Breskin, A. ; Charpak, G. ; Dominik, W. ; Fonte, P. ; Gaudaen, J. ; Giomataris, Y. ; Gougas, A. ; Pestov, V. ; Sauli, F. ; Solomey, N. ; Zaganidis, N.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Volume

36

Issue

1

fYear

1989

fDate

2/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

300

Lastpage

304

Abstract

Photons emitted by avalanches in gases can be detected with an image intensifier coupled to a digitizing camera. The authors investigated the emission properties of various gas mixtures in order to increase the light yield. Several applications of the imaging chamber are illustrated: for high-granularity tracking of complex events and of electromagnetic and hadronic showers; for Cerenkov ring-imaging of charged particles and electromagnetic showers; and for use as a tracking device in a neutrino-tagging experiment

Keywords

Cherenkov counters; image intensifiers; particle track visualisation; position sensitive particle detectors; Cerenkov ring-imaging; EM showers; emission properties; gas mixtures; hadron showers; hadronic showers; image intensifier; imaging chamber; neutrino-tagging experiment; Cathodes; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; High-resolution imaging; Image intensifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical feedback; Optical imaging; Phosphors; Solid scintillation detectors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.34453

Filename

34453