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Demonstration of new possibilities of multilayer technology on resistive microstrip/ microdot detectors
V. Cairo, R. De Oliveira, P. Fonte +4
The first successful attempts to optimize the electric field in Resistive Microstrip Gas Chamber and resistive microdot detectors using additional field shaping strips located insi…
Resistive MSGC with double layered electrodes
R. Oliveira, S. Franchino, V. Peskov
The first successful attempts to optimize the electric field in Resistive Microstrip Gas Chamber (RMSGC) using additional field shaping strips located inside the detector substrate…
Development of a new generation of micropattern gaseous detectors for high energy physics, astrophysics and environmental applications
V. Peskov, A. Di Mauroa, P. Fonte +5
We have developed a cost effective technology for manufacturing various layouts of micropattern gaseous detectors for a wide range of applications. Such devices feature resistive e…
Challenges for RPCs and resistive micropattern detectors in the next few years
V. Peskov
Nowadays RPCs are in a booming phase: they are successfully used in many experiments, including LHC; there are ambitious plans to use them in several upgrade detectors and in some…
First observation of Cherenkov rings with a large area CsI-TGEM-based RICH prototype
V. Peskov, G. Bencze, A. Di Mauro +8
We have built a RICH detector prototype consisting of a liquid C6F14 radiator and six triple Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (TGEMs), each of them having an active area of 10x10…
R&D results on a CsI-TTGEM based photodetector
A. Breskin, V. Peskov, A. Di Mauro +6
The very high momentum particle identification detector proposed for the ALICE upgrade is a focusing RICH using a C4F10 gaseous radiator. For the detection of Cherenkov photons, on…
Position Sensitive Gaseous Photomultipliers
P. Martinengo, E. Nappi, V. Peskov
Advances in the technologies associated with position sensitive gaseous detectors especially featuring CsI as reflective photoconverters will be reviewed. These photodetectors repr…
Further evaluation of a THGEM UV-photon detector for RICH - comparison with MWPC
V. Peskov, M. Cortesi, R. Chechik +1
The operation of single-, double- and triple-THGEM UV-detectors with reflective CsI photocathodes (CsI-THGEM) in Ne/CH4 and Ne/CF4 mixtures was investigated in view of their potent…
Advances in the Development of Micropattern Gaseous Detectors with Resistive Electrodes
P. Fonte, P. Martinengo, E. Nappi +4
We describe the most recent efforts made by various groups in implementing resistive electrodes in micropattern gaseous detectors with the aim to combine in the same design the bes…
Performance of wire-type Rn detectors operated with gas gain in ambient air in view of its possible application to early earthquake predictions
G. Charpak, P. Benaben, P. Breuil +3
We describe a detector of alpha particles based on wire type counters (single-wire and multiwire) operating in ambient air at high gas gains (100-1000). The main advantages of thes…
Towards THGEM UV-photon detectors for RICH: on single-photon detection efficiency in Ne/CH4 and Ne/CF4
C. D. R. Azevedo, M. Cortesi, A. V. Lyashenko +7
The article deals with the detection efficiency of UV-photon detectors consisting of Thick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEM) coated with CsI photocathode, operated in atmospheric Ne…
Progress in the development of a S RETGEM-based detector for an early forest fire warning system
G. Charpak, P. Benaben, P. Breuil +3
In this paper we present a prototype of a Strip Resistive Thick GEM photosensitive gaseous detector filled with Ne and ethylferrocene vapours at a total pressure of 1 atm for an ea…
On the physics and technology of gaseous particle detectors
P. Fonte, V. Peskov
Despite an already long and fruitful history, gaseous elementary-particle detectors remain today an important mainstay of high-energy and nuclear physics experiments and of radiati…
THGEM operation in Ne and Ne/CH4
M. Cortesi, V. Peskov, G. Bartesaghi +8
The operation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (THGEM) in Ne and Ne/CH4 mixtures, features high multiplication factors at relatively low operation potentials, in both single-…
Detector of alpha particles and x-rays operating in ambient air in pulse counting mode or/and with gas amplification
G. Charpak, P. Benaben, P. Breuil +1
Ionization chambers working in ambient air in current detection mode are widely used in several applications such as smoke detection, dosimetry, therapeutic beam monitoring and cet…
A New GEM-like Imaging Detector with Electrodes Coated with Resistive Layers
A. Di Mauro, B. Lund-Jensen, P. Martinengro +6
We have developed and tested several prototypes of GEM-like detectors with electrodes coated with resistive layers: CuO or CrO. These detectors can operate stably at gains close to…
Advanced Photodetectors for Hyperspectroscopy and Other Applications
I. Rodionov, J-M. Bidault, I. Crotty +4
Hyperspectroscopy is a new method of surface image taking, providing simultaneously high position and spectral resolutions which allow one to make some conclusions about chemical c…
A High Position Resolution X-ray Detector: an Edge on Illuminated Capillary Plate Combined with a Gas Amplification Structure
C. Iacobaeus, T. Francke, B. Lund-Jensen +4
We have developed and successfully tested a prototype of a new type of high position resolution hybrid X-ray detector. It contains a thin wall lead glass capillary plate converter…
The Development and Study of High-Position Resolution (50 micron) RPCs for Imaging X-rays and UV photons
C. Iacobaeus, P. Fonte, T. Francke +4
Nowadays, commonly used Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) have counting rate capabilities of ~10E4Hz/cm2 and position resolutions of ~1cm. We have developed small prototypes of RPCs…
Aging in gaseous photodetectors
T. Francke, V. Peskov
This paper describes the present status of the aging studies in various photosensitive detectors. New experimental data are presented on aging of trimethilamine (TMA) and ethilferr…
Potential of RPCs for tracking
T. Francke, P. Fonte, V. Peskov +1
We have demonstrated that small gap (0.1 to 0.4 mm) RPCs made of low resistivity materials (less than 1E8 Ohm.cm) can operate at counting rates of up to 1E5 Hz/mm2 with position re…
Sporadic electron jets from cathodes - The main breakdown-triggering mechanism in gaseous detectors
C. Iacobaeus, M. Danielsson, P. Fonte +3
We have demonstrated experimentally that the main breakdown-triggering mechanism in most gaseous detectors, including micropattern gaseous detectors, is sporadic electron jets from…
Evaluation of various planar gaseous detectors with CsI photocathodes for the detection of primary scintillation light from noble gases
L. Periale, V. Peskov, P. Carlson +5
Noble gases and liquids are excellent scintillators and this opens a unique opportunity to directly detect the primary scintillation light produced in these media by photons or par…