1207.0013 (M. Ball et al.)

Technical Design Study for the PANDA Time Projection Chamber    [PDF]

M. Ball, F. V. Böhmer, S. Dørheim, C. Höppner, B. Ketzer, I. Konorov, S. Neubert, S. Paul, J. Rauch, S. Uhl, M. Vandenbroucke, M. Berger, J. -C. Berger-Chen, F. Cusanno, L. Fabbietti, R. Münzer, R. Arora, J. Frühauf, M. Kiš, Y. Leifels, V. Kleipa, J. Hehner, J. Kunkel, N. Kurz, K. Peters, H. Risch, C. J. Schmidt, L. Schmitt, S. Schwab, D. Soyk, B. Voss, J. Weinert, R. Beck, D. Kaiser, M. Lang, R. Schmitz, D. Walther, P. Bühler, P. Müllner, J. Zmeskal, N. Hermann

This document illustrates the technical layout and the expected performance of a Time Projection Chamber as the central tracking system of the PANDA experiment. The detector is based on a continuously operating TPC with Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) amplification.

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