Dr
Nigel Rhodes
9/15/05, 9:00 AM
New Gas-based Tracking Detectors
Invited Talk
Astrid Muennich
(RWTH Aachen)
9/15/05, 9:30 AM
New Gas-based Tracking Detectors
Contributed Talk
A high resolution TPC with gas amplification based on micro pattern
gas detectors is a promising candidate for the main tracker at the
ILC detector. The physics goals and the expected enviroment at the
ILC requires the development of a TPC with unprecedented performance.
Extensive R&D work has started to meet these challenges. We studied
the process of ion backdrift and...
Dr
Harry van der Graaf
(National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics, The Netherlands)
9/15/05, 9:45 AM
New Gas-based Tracking Detectors
Contributed Talk
Conventional readout systems for Time Projection Chambers (TPCs)
based on wire chambers have certain limitations concerning counting
rate and spatial resolution. We have built a new type of TPC which
will not suffer from these limitations.
Our mini-TPC consists of a MediPix chip, a Micromegas and an cathode
plane. With the proper gas mixture and voltages it is possible to
detect...
Mr
Manuel Caamano Fresco
(University of Santiago Compostela)
9/15/05, 10:00 AM
Applications in Nuclear Physics
Contributed Talk
With the recent improvement in the field of exotic beam, especially
with the SPIRAL facility at GANIL, a new area of the nuclear chart
is now available for experimentation. Nevertheless the intensity of
such beams is still relatively low (few thousands of particles per
second), and for some reactions of interest the cross sections are
low. Thus it is essential to be able to perform...
Prof.
Amos Breskin
(The Weizmann Institue of Science)
9/15/05, 10:15 AM
Novel Gas-based Detection Techniques
Contributed Talk
The thick GEM-like (THGEM) electrode is a rather new gas-avalanche
electron multiplier, economically produced by standard printed
circuit board (PCB) drilling and etching techniques. Its structure
is similar to that of standard GEM, but its dimensions are expanded,
with thickness varying from 0.4 to 3.2 mm and the mechanically-
drilled hole diameter varying from 0.3 to 1mm. The Cu...
