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Abstract
An R&D project was started to develop a gaseous detector of single UV photons, able to stably operate at high gain and high rate, and to provide good time resolution and insensitivity to magnetic field, as required by the next generation of Ring Imaging Cherenkov Counters. The detector is based on the use of a novel and robust electron multiplier, the THGEM, arranged in a multilayer architecture, where the first layer is coated with a photosensitive CsI film. A systematic study of the response of single layer THGEMs with various geometries and different conditions was performed and several small photon detector prototypes have been built, tested in laboratory and operated in test beam exercises during 2009 and 2010 at the CERN H4 beam line. Evidence for the efficient detection of Cherenkov photons has been obtained, with stable operation in the test beam environment; the typical gain was about 105 and the time resolution was better than 10 ns.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Photomultipliers; phototubes and photocathodes ; Imaging detectors and sensors ; Cherenkov detectors |
| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2020 14:36 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Apr 2020 14:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/17507 |
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