In recent years, an R&D project has been conducted to consolidate resistive Micromegas technology for operations well beyond the current ones in HEP experiments, with the aim of a stable, reliable, and high gain operation up to particle rates above 1 MHz/cm2, on large surfaces. To achieve this goal, while maintaining a low occupancy on the readout elements, a configuration with small pads...
The Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors built at the University of Virginia are used for both front and rear tracking systems in the Super Bigbite Spectrometer (SBS) experiments at Jefferson Lab (JLab). These GEM detectors include some of the largest area GEM detectors to be used in an experiment. Furthermore, with over 50 large area GEM modules, this is one of the largest ever sets of...
The RD51 collaboration organises up to three times per year joint test beam campaigns at the H4 beam line of the CERN SPS. Following the integration of the VMM3a front-end ASIC into the RD51 Scalable Readout System (SRS), the combination of VMM3a and SRS was adapted to read out a new beam telescope for the RD51 collaboration. Furthermore, the beam telescope was used as Beam Position Detector...
At LMU Munich a proton irradiation platform for preclinical research with tumor bearing mouse models has been developed and commissioned. It converts injected clinical proton beams to low energies of 20 to 50MeV and small diameters of O(1mm) to enable precise, image-guided irradiation of mice. The profile of the produced beam has been in depth characterized with an optically read out bulk...
