12th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation - VCI 2010

Session

Gaseous Detectors 2

16 Feb 2010, 11:20

HS 1 (TU Vienna)

92. High Energy Resolution in High-Pressure Xe Gas TPCs

Helmuth Spieler (LBL)

16/02/2010, 11:20

Contributed Talk

Searches for rare events such as neutrinoless double beta decay require discrimination between backgrounds and desired events. In part this can be achieved by energy resolution, but the ability to record the event topology is extremely useful. Existing data indicate that high-pressure Xe gas can provide excellent energy resolution in addition to sufficient position resolution in a TPC to...

14. The 10 bar Hydrogen Time Projection Chamber of the MuCap Experiment

Dr Malte Hildebrandt (PSI)

16/02/2010, 11:45

Contributed Talk

The MuCap Experiment measured the muon capture rate, mu- + p → n + neutrino. This measurement determines the induced pseudo-scalar form factor g_p. The experiment is located at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland. Physics data taking has finished, data analysis is ongoing. The Time Projection Chamber is located inside a pressure vessel and is operated with 10 bar hydrogen. The TPC...

196. The Commisioning and Performance of the Outer Tracker Detector for LHCb

Antonio Pellegrino (NIKHEF)

16/02/2010, 12:10

Contributed Talk

The LHCb experiment is designed to study $B$-decays at the LHC. It is crucial to accurately and efficiently detect the charged decay particles in the high-density particle environment of the LHC. For this, the Outer Tracker (OT) is being constructed, consisting of ~55,000 straw tubes, covering in total an area of 360 m2 of double layers. At the time of the conference, the detector will be...