Speaker
Pedro Hugo Ferreira Natal Da Luz
(Departamento de Fisica-LIP Laboratorio de Instrumacao e Fisica)
Description
The thick-Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) is an expanded version of the standard GEM, which has been shown to have very competitive performance as an electron multiplier in gaseous particle detectors, in terms of charge gain, behaviour at high event rate, operational stability, simplicity and price of production, even at small scale. The possibility of using THGEM detectors as active elements for Digital Hadron Calorimetry has been tested, using THGEM based chambers to detect X-rays, cosmic radiation and muons and pions in beam environment.
It has been shown that the THGEM can easily deliver pulses above 30 fC when irradiated with muons and pions. Several geometries will be presented, and a critical evaluation of the performance of each will be given.
Author
Pedro Hugo Ferreira Natal Da Luz
(Departamento de Fisica-LIP Laboratorio de Instrumacao e Fisica)
Co-authors
Amos Breskin
(Department of Particle Physics – Weizmann Institute of Science)
Andy White
(University of Texas at Arlington)
Carlos Azevedo
(I3N - Physics Department - University of Aveiro)
Daniel Covita
(I3N - Physics Department - University of Aveiro)
Jae Yu
(University of Texas at Arlington)
Joaquim Dos Santos
(Physics Department - University of Coimbra)
Lior Arazi
(Department of Particle Physics – Weizmann Institute of Science)
Marco Cortesi
(Department of Particle Physics – Weizmann Institute of Science)
Seongtae Park
(University of Texas at Arlington)
joao Veloso
(I3N - Physics Department - University of Aveiro)
