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Performance of the High-Angle Time Projection Chambers in the Upgraded T2K Off-Axis Near Detector
K. Aivazelis, D. Attié, P. Billoir +94
The off-axis magnetic near detector of the T2K experiment has undergone a significant upgrade, including the construction and installation of two new Time Projection Chambers featu…
Characterization of the Electronic Noise in the Readout of Resistive Micromegas in the High-Angle Time Projection Chambers of the T2K Experiment
D. Attié, P. Billoir, G. Bortolato +44
The two high-angle Time Projection Chambers of the T2K experiment are equipped with a new readout system based on resistive Micromegas detector technology, and utilize custom-made…
MPGDs for TPCs at future lepton colliders
Alain Bellerive, Jochen Kaminski, Peter M. Lewis +13
This submission will focus on advancements and advantages of Micro Pattern Gas Detector (MPGD) technologies and their applications to the construction of a dedicated Time Projectio…
Characterization of resistive Micromegas detectors for the upgrade of the T2K Near Detector Time Projection Chambers
D. Attié, M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, P. Billoir +58
The second phase of the T2K experiment is expected to start data taking in autumn 2022. An upgrade of the Near Detector (ND280) is under development and includes the construction o…
Performances of a resistive MicroMegas module for the Time Projection Chambers of the T2K Near Detector upgrade
D. Attie, M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, J. Boix +53
An upgrade of the Near Detector of the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, ND280, has been proposed. This upgrade will include two new Time Projection Chambers, each…
Measurement and simulation of two-phase CO cooling for the AFTER electronics of the Micromegas modules for a Large Prototype of a Time Projection Chamber
Deb Sankar Bhattacharya, David Attie, Paul Colas +6
The readout electronics of a Micromegas (MM) module consume nearly 26 W of electric power, which causes the temperature of electronic board to increase upto .…
Experimental and numerical simulation of a TPC like set up for the measurement of ion backflow
Deb Sankar Bhattacharya, Purba Bhattacharya, Prasant Kumar Rout +8
Ion backflow is one of the effects limiting the operation of a gaseous detector at high flux, by giving rise to space charge which perturbs the electric field. The natural ability…
Readout technologies for directional WIMP Dark Matter detection
J. B. R. Battat, I. G. Irastorza, A. Aleksandrov +90
The measurement of the direction of WIMP-induced nuclear recoils is a compelling but technologically challenging strategy to provide an unambiguous signature of the detection of Ga…
A Time Projection Chamber with GEM-Based Readout
The LCTPC Collaboration, David Attié, Ties Behnke +67
For the International Large Detector concept at the planned International Linear Collider, the use of time projection chambers (TPC) with micro-pattern gas detector readout as the…
Measurement of 1.7 to 74 MeV polarised gamma rays with the HARPO TPC
Y. Geerebaert, Ph. Gros, S. Amano +23
Current γ-ray telescopes based on photon conversions to electron-positron pairs, such as Fermi, use tungsten converters. They suffer of limited angular resolution at low energies,…
LEETECH facility as a flexible source of low energy electrons
D. Attie, S. Barsuk, O. Bezshyyko +14
A new versatile facility LEETECH for detector R&D, tests and calibration is designed and constructed. It uses electrons produced by the photoinjector PHIL at LAL, Orsay and provide…
Comparison of Bulk Micromegas with Different Amplification Gaps
Purba Bhattacharya, Sudeb Bhattacharya, Nayana Majumdar +4
The bulk Micromegas detector is considered to be a promising candidate for building TPCs for several future experiments including the projected linear collider. The standard bulk w…
Characterization and simulation of resistive-MPGDs with resistive strip and layer topologies
J. Galan, D. Attie, A. Chaus +8
The use of resistive technologies to MPGD detectors is taking advantage for many new applications, including high rate and energetic particle flux scenarios. The recent use of thes…
A Piggyback resistive Micromegas
D. Attie, A. Chaus, P. Colas +8
A novel read-out architecture has been developed for the Micromegas detector. The anode element is made of a resistive layer on a ceramic substrate. The detector part is entirely s…
Infrastructure for Detector Research and Development towards the International Linear Collider
J. Aguilar, P. Ambalathankandy, T. Fiutowski +274
The EUDET-project was launched to create an infrastructure for developing and testing new and advanced detector technologies to be used at a future linear collider. The aim was to…
Micromegas detector developments for MIMAC
E. Ferrer-Ribas, D. Attié, D. Calvet +19
The aim of the MIMAC project is to detect non-baryonic Dark Matter with a directional TPC. The recent Micromegas efforts towards building a large size detector will be described, i…
Micromegas detector developments for Dark Matter directional detection with MIMAC
F. J. Iguaz, D. Attié, D. Calvet +19
The aim of the MIMAC project is to detect non-baryonic Dark Matter with a directional TPC using a high precision Micromegas readout plane. We will describe in detail the recent dev…
Ultra low energy results and their impact to dark matter and low energy neutrino physics
E. Bougamont, P. Colas, J. Derre +9
We present ultra low energy results taken with the novel Spherical Proportional Counter. The energy threshold has been pushed down to about 25 eV and single electrons are clearly c…
MICROMEGAS chambers for hadronic calorimetry at a future linear collider
C. Adloff, D. Attie, J. Blaha +15
Prototypes of MICROMEGAS chambers, using bulk technology and analog readout, with 1x1cm2 readout segmentation have been built and tested. Measurements in Ar/iC4H10 (95/5) and Ar/CO…
A novel large-volume Spherical Detector with Proportional Amplification read-out
I. Giomataris, I. Irastorza, I. Savvidis +11
A new type of radiation detector based on a spherical geometry is presented. The detector consists of a large spherical gas volume with a central electrode forming a radial electri…
Micromegas TPC studies at high magnetic fields using the charge dispersion signal
M. Dixit, D. Attie, A. Bellerive +10
The International Linear Collider (ILC) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) transverse space-point resolution goal is 100 microns for all tracks including stiff 90 degree tracks with the…
Progress on a spherical TPC for low energy neutrino detection
S Aune, P Colas, H Deschamps +18
The new concept of the spherical TPC aims at relatively large target masses with low threshold and background, keeping an extremely simple and robust operation. Such a device would…
Spatial Resolution of a Micromegas-TPC Using the Charge Dispersion Signal
A. Bellerive, K. Boudjemline, R. Carnegie +11
The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) for the International Linear Collider will need to measure about 200 track points with a resolution close to 100 m. A Micro Pattern Gas Detecto…
Micromegas in a Bulk
I. Giomataris, R. De Oliveira, S. Andriamonje +6
In this paper we present a novel way to manufacture the bulk Micromegas detector. A simple process based on the PCB (Printed Circuit Board) technology is employed to produce the en…