A time projection chamber with GEM-based readout

David Attié (1) , Ties Behnke , Alain Bellerive , Oleg Bezshyyko , Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (1) , Purba Bhattacharya , Sudeb Bhattacharya , Stefano Caiazza , Paul Colas (1) , Gilles de Lentdecker , Klaus Dehmelt , Klaus Desch , Ralf Diener , Madhu Dixit , Ivor Fleck , Keisuke Fujii , Takahiro Fusayasu , Serguei Ganjour (1) , Yuanning Gao , Philippe Gros (2) , Peter Hayman , Vincent Hedberg , Katsumasa Ikematsu , Leif Jönsson , Jochen Kaminski , Yukihiro Kato , Shin-Ichi Kawada , Martin Killenberg , Claus Kleinwort , Makoto Kobayashi , Vladyslav Krylov , Bo Li , Yulan Li , Björn Lundberg , Michael Lupberger , Nayana Majumdar , Takeshi Matsuda , Rashid Mehdiyev , Ulf Mjörnmark , Felix Müller , Astrid Münnich , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Tomohisa Ogawa , Anders Oskarsson , Lennart Österman , Daniel Peterson , Marc Riallot (1) , Christoph Rosemann , Stefan Roth , Peter Schade , Oliver Schäfer , Ronald Dean Settles , Amir Noori Shirazi , Oxana Smirnova , Akira Sugiyama , Tohru Takahashi , Junping Tian , Jan Timmermans , Maksym Titov (1) , Dimitra Tsionou , Annika Vauth , Wenxin Wang , Takashi Watanabe , Ulrich Werthenbach , Yifan Yang , Zhenwei Yang , Ryo Yonamine , Klaus Zenker , Fan Zhang

1 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
2 LLR - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet

For the International Large Detector concept at the planned International Linear Collider, the use of time projection chambers (TPC) with micro-pattern gas detector readout as the main tracking detector is investigated. In this paper, results from a prototype TPC, placed in a 1T solenoidal field and read out with three independent Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) based readout modules, are reported. The TPC was exposed to a 6GeV electron beam at the DESY II synchrotron. The efficiency for reconstructing hits, the measurement of the drift velocity, the space point resolution and the control of field inhomogeneities are presented.

Mots clés: Time projection chambers (TPC); Micropattern gaseous detectors (MPGD); Gas electron multipliers (GEM); International Linear Collider (ILC); International Large Detector (ILD); electron: irradiation; time projection chamber; tracking detector; drift velocity; efficiency; gas electron multiplier; spatial resolution; magnetic field: spatial distribution; ILD detector

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]; Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

David Attié, Ties Behnke, Alain Bellerive, Oleg Bezshyyko, Deb Sankar Bhattacharya, et al.. A time projection chamber with GEM-based readout. Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A, 2017, 856, pp.109-118. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2016.11.002⟩. ⟨hal-01554956⟩