| Pàgina inicial > An aging study of a gas electron multiplier with micro-strip gas chamber readout |
| Article | |
| Title | An aging study of a gas electron multiplier with micro-strip gas chamber readout |
| Author(s) | Miyamoto, J ; Shipsey, I P I |
| Affiliation | (Dept of Phys) |
| Publication | 1999 |
| In: | IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 46 (1999) pp.312-316 |
| Abstract | We have performed an aging study of a Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) readout with a Micro-Strip Gas Chamber (MSGC). The GEM is constructed from Kapton and copper, and the MSGC is constructed from semiconductive glass and gold. When the detector (GEM+MSGC) is operated in an argon-dimethyl ether (DME) gas mixture and irradiated with a 5.4 keV photon beam, about 220 mC/cm of charge can be accumulated without degradation of the detector performance. This corresponds to about 20 years of operation at the LHC. |