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The novel XYU-GEM to resolve ambiguities
K. J. Flöthner, F. Brunbauer, S. Ferry +16
Removing ambiguities within a single stage becomes crucial when one can not use multiple detectors behind each other to resolve them which naturally is the case for neutral radiati…
Performance of the new RD51 VMM3a/SRS beam telescope---studying MPGDs simultaneously in energy, space and time at high rates
L. Scharenberg, J. Bortfeldt, F. Brunbauer +14
The RD51 collaboration maintains a common infrastructure at CERN for its R & D activities, including two beam telescopes for test beam campaigns. Recently, one of the beam telescop…
Demonstration of Gd-GEM detector design for neutron macromolecular crystallography applications
D. Pfeiffer, F. Brunbauer, R. Hall-Wilton +12
The European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden will become the world's most powerful thermal neutron source. The Macromolecular Diffractometer (NMX) at the ESS requires three…
Snowmass 2021 White Paper Instrumentation Frontier 05 -- White Paper 1: MPGDs: Recent advances and current R&D
K. Dehmelt, M. Della Pietra, H. Muller +67
This paper will review the origins, development, and examples of new versions of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors. The goal for MPGD development was the creation of detectors that could…
Recoil imaging for directional detection of dark matter, neutrinos, and physics beyond the Standard Model
C. A. J. O'Hare, D. Loomba, K. Altenmüller +164
Recoil imaging entails the detection of spatially resolved ionization tracks generated by particle interactions. This is a highly sought-after capability in many classes of detecto…
Rate-capability of the VMM3a Front End in the RD51 Scalable Readout System
D. Pfeiffer, L. Scharenberg, P. Schwäbig +20
The VMM3a is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), specifically developed for the readout of gaseous detectors. Originally developed within the ATLAS New Small Wheel (…
Optical Readout Studies of the Thick-COBRA Gaseous Detector
F. Garcia, F. M. Brunbauer, M. Lisowska +11
The performance of a Thick-COBRA (THCOBRA) gaseous detector is studied using an optical readout technique. The operation principle of this device is described, highlighting its ope…
Software-based data acquisition and processing for neutron detectors at European Spallation Source - early experience from four detector designs
M. J. Christensen, R. Al Jebali, T. Blum +12
European Spallation Source (ESS) will deliver neutrons at high flux for use in diverse neutron scattering techniques. The neutron source facility and the scientific instruments wil…
Interfacing Geant4, Garfield++ and Degrad for the Simulation of Gaseous Detectors
Dorothea Pfeiffer, Lennert De Keukeleere, Carlos Azevedo +10
For several years, attempts have been made to interface Geant4 and other software packages with the aim of simulating the complete response of a gaseous particle detector. In such…
The radiation field in the Gamma Irradiation Facility GIF++ at CERN
Dorothea Pfeiffer, Georgi Gorine, Hans Reithler +7
The high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade is setting now a new challenge for particle detector technologies. The increase in luminosity will produce a particle background in the gas…
Charge Transfer Properties Through Graphene for Applications in Gaseous Detectors
S. Franchino, D. Gonzalez-Diaz, R. Hall-Wilton +13
Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice with remarkable mechanical and electrical properties. Regarded as the thinnest and narrowest conductive m…
Effects of High Charge Densities in Multi-GEM Detectors
S. Franchino, D. Gonzalez Diaz, R. Hall-Wilton +9
A comprehensive study, supported by systematic measurements and numerical computations, of the intrinsic limits of multi-GEM detectors when exposed to very high particle fluxes or…
First Measurements with New High-Resolution Gadolinium-GEM Neutron Detectors
Dorothea Pfeiffer, Filippo Resnati, Jens Birch +12
European Spallation Source instruments like the macromolecular diffractometer, NMX, require an excellent neutron detection efficiency, high-rate capabilities, time resolution, and…
Charge Transfer Properties Through Graphene Layers in Gas Detectors
P. Thuiner, R. Hall-Wilton, R. B. Jackman +9
Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice with remarkable mechanical, electrical and optical properties. For the first time graphene layers suspend…
The uTPC Method: Improving the Position Resolution of Neutron Detectors Based on MPGDs
Dorothea Pfeiffer, Filippo Resnati, Jens Birch +8
Due to the Helium-3 crisis, alternatives to the standard neutron detection techniques are becoming urgent. In addition, the instruments of the European Spallation Source (ESS) requ…
Overcoming High Energy Backgrounds at Pulsed Spallation Sources
Nataliia Cherkashyna, Richard J. Hall-Wilton, Douglas D. DiJulio +18
Instrument backgrounds at neutron scattering facilities directly affect the quality and the efficiency of the scientific measurements that users perform. Part of the background at…
Neutron Position Sensitive Detectors for the ESS
Oliver Kirstein, Richard Hall-Wilton, Irina Stefanescu +17
The European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden will become the world's leading neutron source for the study of materials. The instruments are being selected from conceptual p…
Design, Implementation and First Measurements with the Medipix Neutron Camera in CMS
Dorothea Pfeiffer, Austin Ball, Alan Bell +13
The Medipix detector is the first device dedicated to measuring mixed-field radiation in the CMS cavern and able to distinguish between different particle types. Medipix2-MXR chips…