Damien Neyret, Philippe Abbon, Marc Anfreville, Yann Bedfer, Etienne Burtin, Christophe Coquelet, Nicole d'Hose, Daniel Desforge, Arnaud Giganon, Didier Jourde, Fabienne Kunne, Alain Magnon, Nour Makke, Claude Marchand, Bernard Paul, Stéphane Platchkov, Florian Thibaud, Michel Usseglio, Maxence Vandenbroucke
New Micromegas (Micro-mesh gaseous detectors) are being developed in view of
the future physics projects planned by the COMPASS collaboration at CERN.
Several major upgrades compared to present detectors are being studied:
detectors standing five times higher luminosity with hadron beams, detection of
beam particles (flux up to a few hundred of kHz/mm^{2}, 10 times larger than
for the present Micromegas detectors) with pixelized read-out in the central
part, light and integrated electronics, and improved robustness. Two solutions
of reduction of discharge impact have been studied, with Micromegas detectors
using resistive layers and using an additional GEM foil. Performance of such
detectors has also been measured. A large size prototypes with nominal active
area and pixelized read-out has been produced and installed at COMPASS in 2010.
In 2011 prototypes featuring an additional GEM foil, as well as an resistive
prototype, are installed at COMPASS and preliminary results from those
detectors presented very good performance. We present here the project and
report on its status, in particular the performance of large size prototypes
with an additional GEM foil.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3337
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