• DocumentCode
    2626124
  • Title

    Time projection chamber with triple GEM and pixel readout

  • Author

    Kaminski, Jochen ; Killenberg, Martin ; Bamberger, Andreas ; Blank, Hubert ; Brezina, Christoph ; Desch, Klaus ; Krautscheid, Thorsten ; Ockenfels, Walter ; Renz, Uwe ; Ummenhofer, Martin ; Wienemann, Peter ; Zimmermann, Simone ; Zwerger, Andreas

  • Author_Institution
    University of Bonn, Germany
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    19-25 Oct. 2008
  • Firstpage
    2926
  • Lastpage
    2929
  • Abstract
    A Time Projection Chamber with a maximum drift distance of 26 cm was equipped with a triple GEM and a high resolution pixel readout. This detector was set up in a cosmic ray test-stand and 40 000 tracks have been recorded. It was shown, that the transverse spatial resolution in dependence on the drift distance was close to the diffusion limit of single electrons. In an electron test beam with an energy of 0.5 GeV it could be demonstrated that the data show no significant dependence on the track inclination within the pad plane.
  • Keywords
    Copper; Detectors; Electrodes; Electron beams; Electron multipliers; Energy resolution; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Prototypes; Spatial resolution; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Dresden, Germany
  • ISSN
    1095-7863
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2714-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1095-7863
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774978
  • Filename
    4774978