Beam studies of the segmented resistive WELL: A potential thin sampling element for digital hadron calorimetry

Lior Arazi; Carlos Davide Rocha Azevedo; Amos Breskin; Shikma Bressler; Luca Moleri; Hugo Natal da Luz; Eraldo Oliveri; Michael Pitt; Adam Rubin; Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos; Joao Filipe Calapez de Albuquerque Veloso; Andrew Paul White

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2013.08.006

Beam studies of the segmented resistive WELL: A potential thin sampling element for digital hadron calorimetry

Lior Arazi, Carlos Davide Rocha Azevedo, Amos Breskin, Shikma Bressler, Luca Moleri, Hugo Natal da Luz, Eraldo Oliveri, Michael Pitt, Adam Rubin, Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos, Joao Filipe Calapez de Albuquerque Veloso, Andrew Paul White

Weizmann Institute of Science

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Thick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEMs) have the potential of constituting thin, robust sampling elements in Digital Hadron Calorimetry (DHCAL) at future colliders. We report on recent beam studies of new single- and double-THGEM-like structures: the multiplier is a Segmented Resistive WELL (SRWELL) - a single-faced THGEM in contact with a segmented resistive layer inductively coupled to readout pads. Several 10 x 10 cm² configurations with a total thickness of 5-6 mm (excluding electronics) with 1 cm² pads were investigated with muons and pions. The pads were coupled to a scalable readout system APV chip, APV-SRS (Raymond et al. [22]). Detection efficiencies in the 98% range were recorded with an average pad-multiplicity of ∼ 1.1. The resistive anode resulted in efficient discharge clamping, with potential drops of a few volts; the discharge probabilities were similar to 10^-7 for muons and similar to 10^-6 for pions, at rates of a few kHz/cm² and for detectors in the double-stage configuration. Further optimization work and research on larger detectors are underway.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	199-202
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment
Volume	732
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.08.006
State	Published - 2 Sep 2013

Keywords

Digital hadron calorimetry (DHCAL)
ILC
Micropattern gaseous detectors (MPGD)
Resistive electrode
SRS
THGEM

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Instrumentation

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Arazi, L., Rocha Azevedo, C. D., Breskin, A., Bressler, S., Moleri, L., Natal da Luz, H., Oliveri, E., Pitt, M., Rubin, A., Ferreira dos Santos, J. M., Calapez de Albuquerque Veloso, J. F., & White, A. P. (2013). Beam studies of the segmented resistive WELL: A potential thin sampling element for digital hadron calorimetry. Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment, 732, 199-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.08.006

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Arazi, L, Rocha Azevedo, CD, Breskin, A, Bressler, S, Moleri, L, Natal da Luz, H, Oliveri, E, Pitt, M, Rubin, A, Ferreira dos Santos, JM, Calapez de Albuquerque Veloso, JF & White, AP 2013, 'Beam studies of the segmented resistive WELL: A potential thin sampling element for digital hadron calorimetry', Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment, vol. 732, pp. 199-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.08.006

Beam studies of the segmented resistive WELL: A potential thin sampling element for digital hadron calorimetry. / Arazi, Lior; Rocha Azevedo, Carlos Davide; Breskin, Amos et al.
In: Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment, Vol. 732, 02.09.2013, p. 199-202.

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Arazi L, Rocha Azevedo CD, Breskin A, Bressler S, Moleri L, Natal da Luz H et al. Beam studies of the segmented resistive WELL: A potential thin sampling element for digital hadron calorimetry. Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment. 2013 Sep 2;732:199-202. doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2013.08.006

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