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Toward Ionization Cluster Size Measurements with a Compact Nanodosimeter
Victor Merza, Aleksandr Bancer, Vladimir Bashkirov +8
Nanodosimetry aims to provide measurable quantities related to the nanoscopic particle track structure, which determines the biological effectiveness of radiation. While simulated…
Compact VMM3a/SRS integration for high-channel-density TPC readout
Alexandru Enciu, Uwe Bonnes, Meytal Duer +9
The HYDRA (HYpernuclei Decay at RB Apparatus) TPC is a 5,376-channel pion tracker developed for hypernuclear studies at the RB experiment at GSI/FAIR. Its installation insi…
Demonstrating CBM Capabilities by Baryon Reconstruction in Ni+Ni Collisions with the mCBM Experiment at SIS18 of GSI/FAIR
CBM Collaboration, A. Agarwal, Z. Ahammed +338
The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the upcoming Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is a high-rate fixed-target experiment designed to investigate nucle…
Large-scale real-time signal processing in physics experiments: The ALICE TPC FPGA pipeline
J. Alme, T. Alt, C. Andrei +119
For LHC Run 3, the ALICE Time Projection Chamber was upgraded to operate in continuous readout mode. Interaction rates of up to 50 kHz in Pb-Pb collisions require real-time process…
Experimental and Monte Carlo Simulation Studies to Investigate the Working Principle of Compact Nanodosimeters
Victor Merza, Aleksandr Bancer, Vladimir Bashkirov +9
In recent years, compact nanodosimetric detectors based on ion multiplication in low-pressure gas have been developed and gained attention in the scientific community. These detect…
The HYDRA pion-tracker for hypernuclei studies at R3B
Lian-Cheng Ji, Uwe Bonnes, Mikolaj Cwiok +14
The HYpernuclei-Decay at R3B Apparatus (HYDRA) tracker is a novel time projection chamber combined with a plastic scintillator wall for timing and trigger purposes. This detector i…
Impact of trace amounts of water on the stability of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors measured in Ar-CO (90-10)
H. Fribert, L. Fabbietti, P. Gasik +1
In this study, we investigate the influence of humidity on the performance of various non-resistive Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, such as GEM, Thick-GEM, and Micromegas, operate…
Discharge mitigation methods in MPGD-based detectors
P. Gasik
This work reviews various methods used to minimize the probability of discharge occurrence in MPGDs or to mitigate the effect of spark discharges on the detector system. These incl…
Impact of the gas choice and the geometry on the breakdown limits in Micromegas detectors
P. Gasik, T. Waldmann, L. Fabbietti +3
In this study we investigate the stability limits of Micromegas detectors upon irradiation with alpha particles. The results are obtained with meshes with different optical transpa…
New (TH)GEM coating materials characterised using spectroscopy methods
B. Ulukutlu, P. Gasik, T. Waldmann +5
In this work GEM and single-hole Thick GEM structures, composed of different coating materials, are studied. The used foils incorporate conductive layers made of copper, aluminium,…
The upgrade of the ALICE TPC with GEMs and continuous readout
J. Adolfsson, M. Ahmed, S. Aiola +232
The upgrade of the ALICE TPC will allow the experiment to cope with the high interaction rates foreseen for the forthcoming Run 3 and Run 4 at the CERN LHC. In this article, we des…
High voltage scheme optimization for secondary discharge mitigation in GEM-based detectors
L. Lautner, L. Fabbietti, P. Gasik +1
We investigate the influence of the high voltage scheme elements on the stability of a detector based on a single cm area GEM with respect to the secondary dischar…
A next-generation LHC heavy-ion experiment
D. Adamová, G. Aglieri Rinella, M. Agnello +395
The present document discusses plans for a compact, next-generation multi-purpose detector at the LHC as a follow-up to the present ALICE experiment. The aim is to build a nearly m…
Secondary discharge studies in single and multi GEM structures
A. Deisting, C. Garabatos, P. Gasik +12
Secondary discharges, which consist of the breakdown of a gap near a GEM foil upon a primary discharge across that GEM, are studied in this work. Their main characteristics are the…
Real-time data processing in the ALICE High Level Trigger at the LHC
ALICE Collaboration
At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, atomic nuclei are collided at ultra-relativistic energies. Many final-state particles are produced in each collision an…
Upgrade of the ALICE central barrel tracking detectors: ITS and TPC
Gasik fo the ALICE Collaboration
The ALICE Collaboration will undertake a major upgrade of the detector apparatus during the second LHC Long Shutdown LS2 (2019-2020) in view of the Runs 3 and 4 (2021-2029). The ob…
Discharge probability studies with multi-GEM detectors for the ALICE TPC Upgrade
P. Gasik
A large Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main device for tracking and charged-particle identification in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. After the second long shutdown in…
Particle identification studies with a full-size 4-GEM prototype for the ALICE TPC upgrade
M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, S. Aiola +177
A large Time Projection Chamber is the main device for tracking and charged-particle identification in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. After the second long shutdown in 2019/…
Charge density as a driving factor of discharge formation in GEM-based detectors
P. Gasik, A. Mathis, L. Fabbietti +1
We report on discharge probability studies with a single Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) under irradiation with alpha particles in Ar- and Ne-based gas mixtures. The discharge probab…
Building a large-area GEM-based readout chamber for the upgrade of the ALICE TPC
Piotr Gasik
A large Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main device for tracking and charged-particle identification in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. After the second long shutdown in…
SiViO: A Trigger for -Hyperons
Robert Muenzer, Martin Berger, Laura Fabbietti
As online trigger for events containing hyperons in p+p collisions at a silicon-based device has been designed and built. This system has been integrated cl…