Wednesday, June 6, 2012

1201.2729 (H. B. Liu et al.)

A study of thinner-THGEM, with some applications    [PDF]

H. B. Liu, Q. Liu, S. Chen, C. Nicholson, Y. G. Xie, Y. H. Zheng, Z. P. Zheng, J. G. Lu, L. Zhou, A. S. Tang, Y. D. Yang, Y. Dong, M. Li
THGEMs (THick Gas Electron Multiplier) of varying thickness, hole diameter and hole pitch have been studied. For a thinner-THGEM of thickness 0.2 mm, with hole diameter 0.2 mm, pitch 0.2 mm and narrow (5-10 {\mu}m) rim, the performance of gain versus high voltage with different gas mixtures have been studied using 5.9 keV X-rays. In general, a gain of around 3\times10^3 was obtained with a single board in Ar/iC4H10, and gains higher than 10^4 were obtained in Ne mixture at lower voltage. The dependence of the energy resolution on the drift and induction electric fields was measured and an energy resolution of 15.9% was obtained. A curved thinner-THGEM chamber with one-dimensional readout has been assembled for use in the diffraction studies at the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF). A cosmic-ray muon hodoscope based on thinner-THGEM was developed as a teaching experiment for the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS).
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2729

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