TY - JOUR
T1 - The Resistive-Plate WELL with Argon mixtures A robust gaseous radiation detector
AU - Moleri, Luca
AU - Amaro, Fernando Domingues
AU - Arazi, Lior
AU - Rocha Azevedo, Carlos Davide
AU - Oliveri, Eraldo
AU - Pitt, Michael
AU - Schaarschmidt, Jana
AU - Shaked-Renous, Dan
AU - Ferreira dos Santos, Joaquim Marques
AU - Calapez de Albuquerque Veloso, Joao Filipe
AU - Breskin, Amos
AU - Bressler, Shikma
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016 The Authors
PY - 2017/2/11
Y1 - 2017/2/11
N2 - A thin single-element THGEM-based, Resistive-Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector was operated with 150 GeV/c muon and pion beams in Ne/(5%CH4), Ar/(5%CH4) and Ar/(7%CO2); signals were recorded with 1 cm2 square pads and SRS/APV25 electronics. Detection efficiency values greater than 98% were reached in all the gas mixtures, at average pad multiplicity of 1.2. The use of the 109 Ω cm resistive plate resulted in a completely discharge-free operation also in intense pion beams. The efficiency remained essentially constant at 98–99% up to fluxes of ∼104 Hz/cm2, dropping by a few % when approaching 105 Hz/cm2. These results pave the way towards cost-effective, robust, efficient, large-scale detectors for a variety of applications in future particle, astroparticle and applied fields. A potential target application is digital hadron calorimetry.
AB - A thin single-element THGEM-based, Resistive-Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector was operated with 150 GeV/c muon and pion beams in Ne/(5%CH4), Ar/(5%CH4) and Ar/(7%CO2); signals were recorded with 1 cm2 square pads and SRS/APV25 electronics. Detection efficiency values greater than 98% were reached in all the gas mixtures, at average pad multiplicity of 1.2. The use of the 109 Ω cm resistive plate resulted in a completely discharge-free operation also in intense pion beams. The efficiency remained essentially constant at 98–99% up to fluxes of ∼104 Hz/cm2, dropping by a few % when approaching 105 Hz/cm2. These results pave the way towards cost-effective, robust, efficient, large-scale detectors for a variety of applications in future particle, astroparticle and applied fields. A potential target application is digital hadron calorimetry.
KW - Calorimetery
KW - Micropattern Gaseous detectors
KW - THGEM
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85006470350&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.06.009
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.06.009
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 845
SP - 262
EP - 265
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
T2 - 14th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation
Y2 - 15 February 2016 through 19 February 2016
ER -