Development of a GEM-TPC prototype
/ Authors
H. Angerer, R. Beck, M. Berger, F. Boehmer, K. Brinkmann, P. Buehler, M. Carnegie, S. Dorheim, L. Fabbietti, C. Funke
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F. Cusanno, J. Hehner, A. Heinz, M. Henske, C. Hoeppner, D. Kaiser, B. Ketzer, I. Konorov, J. Kunkel, M. Lang, J. Marton, S. Neubert, S. Paul, A. Schmah, C. Schmidt, R. Schmitz, S. Schwab, D. Soyk, Ken Suzuki, U. Thoma, M. Vandenbroucke, B. Voss, D. Walter, Q. Weitzel, E. Widmann, A. Winnebeck, L. Woerner, H. Zaunick, Xiaodong Zhang, J. Zmeskal
/ Abstract
The use of GEM foils for the amplification stage of a TPC instead of a con- ventional MWPC allows one to bypass the necessity of gating, as the backdrift is suppressed thanks to the asymmetric field configuration. This way, a novel continuously running TPC, which represents one option for the PANDA central tracker, can be realized. A medium sized prototype with a diameter of 300 mm and a length of 600 mm will be tested inside the FOPI spectrometer at GSI using a carbon or lithium beam at intermediate energies (E = 1-3AGeV). This detector test under realistic experimental conditions should allow us to verify the spatial resolution for single tracks and the reconstruction capability for displaced vertexes. A series of physics measurement implying pion beams is scheduled with the FOPI spectrometer together with the GEM-TPC as well.
Journal: arXiv: Instrumentation and Detectors