1. Heavy-ion test of detectors with conventional and resistive Micromegas used in TPC configuration
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P. Legou, BronisŁaw Czech, Vladislav Matoušek, O. Yordanov, Pascal Le Bourlout, Jean-Éric Ducret, Michel Combet, T. Gorbinet, S. Leray, Marie-Delphine Salsac, Piotr PawŁowski, J. Lukasik, Robert Durand, A. Boudard, François Nizery, Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Département d'Electronique, des Détecteurs et d'Informatique pour la Physique (ex SEDI) (DEDIP), Institute of Nuclear Physics IFJ-PAN, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Academy of Science [Bratislava] (SAS), Département d'Ingénierie des Systèmes (ex SIS) (DIS), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), and Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Resistive touchscreen ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,business.industry ,Detector ,MicroMegas detector ,STRIPS ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Synchrotron ,law.invention ,Printed circuit board ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Optoelectronics ,Heavy ion ,Electronics ,010306 general physics ,business ,Instrumentation - Abstract
We have performed tests of Micromegas detector prototypes using the heavy-ion beams from the SIS synchrotron of GSI (Darmstadt, Germany). The beams varied from C 6 + 12 to Au 65 + 179 and from 250 to 1000 MeV per nucleon. We have tested two amplification technologies, conventional and resistive Micromegas, and two construction concepts, bulk-Micromegas and micro-meshes screwed on the PCB. The obtained position resolution below 200 μ m for 5 mm wide strips implies that the bulk resistive Micromegas technology might meet the requirements of the future R3B TPC project. We also developed a fast and very low noise front-end electronics connected directly to the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) of the detector itself. This concept has shown very good performances and robustness.
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- 2011
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