Position resolution and efficiency measurements with large scale Thin Gap Chambers for the super LHC

Nir Amram; Gideon Bella; Yan Benhammou; Marco A. Diaz; Ehud Duchovni; Erez Etzion; Alon Hershenhorn; Amit Klier; Nachman Lupu; Giora Mikenberg; Dmitry Milstein; Yonathan Munwes; Osamu Sasaki; Meir Shoa; Vladimir Smakhtin; Ulrich Volkmann

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.311

Position resolution and efficiency measurements with large scale Thin Gap Chambers for the super LHC

Nir Amram, Gideon Bella, Yan Benhammou, Marco A. Diaz, Ehud Duchovni, Erez Etzion, Alon Hershenhorn, Amit Klier, Nachman Lupu, Giora Mikenberg, Dmitry Milstein, Yonathan Munwes, Osamu Sasaki, Meir Shoa, Vladimir Smakhtin, Ulrich Volkmann

Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University

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New developments in Thin Gap Chamber (TGC) detectors to provide fast trigger information and high precision muon tracking under sLHC conditions are presented. The modified detectors are shown to stand a high total irradiation dose equivalent to 6 C/cm of wire, without showing any deterioration in their performance. Two large (1.2×0.8 m²) prototypes containing four gaps, each gap providing pad, strip and wire readout, with a total thickness of 50 mm, have been constructed. Their local spatial resolution has been measured in a 100 GeV/c muon test beam at CERN. At perpendicular incidence angle, a single gap position resolution of better than 60μm has been obtained. For an incidence angle of 20° a resolution of less than 100μm was achieved. TGC prototypes were also tested under a flux of 10⁵ Hz/cm² of 5.56.5 MeV neutrons, showing a high efficiency for the detection of cosmic muons.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	177-181
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment
Volume	628
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.311
State	Published - 2 Feb 2011

Keywords

Aging effect
Position resolution
Super LHC
Thin Gap Chamber

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Instrumentation

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Amram, N., Bella, G., Benhammou, Y., Diaz, M. A., Duchovni, E., Etzion, E., Hershenhorn, A., Klier, A., Lupu, N., Mikenberg, G., Milstein, D., Munwes, Y., Sasaki, O., Shoa, M., Smakhtin, V., & Volkmann, U. (2011). Position resolution and efficiency measurements with large scale Thin Gap Chambers for the super LHC. Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment, 628(1), 177-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.311

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In: Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment, Vol. 628, No. 1, 02.02.2011, p. 177-181.

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