First results with a microcavity plasma panel detector

R. Ball; M. Ben-Moshe; Y. Benhammou; R. Bensimon; J. W. Chapman; M. Davies; E. Etzion; C. Ferretti; P. S. Friedman; D. S. Levin; Y. Silver; R. L. Varner; C. Weaverdyck; B. Zhou

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.11.028

First results with a microcavity plasma panel detector

R. Ball, M. Ben-Moshe, Y. Benhammou, R. Bensimon, J. W. Chapman, M. Davies, E. Etzion, C. Ferretti, P. S. Friedman, D. S. Levin, Y. Silver, R. L. Varner, C. Weaverdyck, B. Zhou

School of Physics and Astronomy

Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

A new type of gaseous micropattern particle detector based on a closed-cell microcavity plasma panel sensor is reported. The first device was fabricated with 1×1×2 mm cells. It has shown very clean signals of 0.6-2.5 V amplitude, fast rise time of approximately 2 ns and FWHM of about 2 ns with very uniform signal shapes across all pixels. From initial measurements with β particles from a radioactive source, a maximum pixel efficiency greater than 95% is calculated, for operation of the detector over a 100 V wide span of high voltages (HV). Over this same HV range, the background rate per pixel was measured to be 3-4 orders of magnitude lower than the rate with which the cell was illuminated by the β source. Pixel-to-pixel count rate uniformity is within 3% and stable within 3% for many days. The time resolution is 2.4 ns, and a very low cell-to-cell crosstalk has been measured between cells separated by 2 mm.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	56-59
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	784
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.11.028
State	Published - 1 Jun 2015

Keywords

Micropattern gas detector
Particle detector
Plasma panel sensor

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Instrumentation

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Ball, R., Ben-Moshe, M., Benhammou, Y., Bensimon, R., Chapman, J. W., Davies, M., Etzion, E., Ferretti, C., Friedman, P. S., Levin, D. S., Silver, Y., Varner, R. L., Weaverdyck, C., & Zhou, B. (2015). First results with a microcavity plasma panel detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 784, 56-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.11.028

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