Analytic Approximation of Energy Resolution in Cascaded Gaseous Detectors

An approximate formula has been derived for gain fluctuations in cascaded gaseous detectors such as Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs), based on the assumption that the charge collection, avalanche formation, and extraction steps are independent cascaded processes. In order to test the approximation ex...

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Main Author: Dezső Varga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-01-01
Series:Advances in High Energy Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8561743
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description An approximate formula has been derived for gain fluctuations in cascaded gaseous detectors such as Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs), based on the assumption that the charge collection, avalanche formation, and extraction steps are independent cascaded processes. In order to test the approximation experimentally, a setup involving a standard GEM layer has been constructed to measure the energy resolution for 5.9 keV gamma particles. The formula reasonably traces both the charge collection and the extraction process dependence of the energy resolution. Such analytic approximation for gain fluctuations can be applied to multi-GEM detectors where it aids the interpretation of measurements as well as simulations.
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spelling doaj-art-4585a213bd7c4e919f31d6a8923a7b222025-02-03T06:01:28ZengWileyAdvances in High Energy Physics1687-73571687-73652016-01-01201610.1155/2016/85617438561743Analytic Approximation of Energy Resolution in Cascaded Gaseous DetectorsDezső Varga0Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the HAS, 29-33 Konkoly-Thege Miklós Street, Budapest 1121, HungaryAn approximate formula has been derived for gain fluctuations in cascaded gaseous detectors such as Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs), based on the assumption that the charge collection, avalanche formation, and extraction steps are independent cascaded processes. In order to test the approximation experimentally, a setup involving a standard GEM layer has been constructed to measure the energy resolution for 5.9 keV gamma particles. The formula reasonably traces both the charge collection and the extraction process dependence of the energy resolution. Such analytic approximation for gain fluctuations can be applied to multi-GEM detectors where it aids the interpretation of measurements as well as simulations.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8561743
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Analytic Approximation of Energy Resolution in Cascaded Gaseous Detectors
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title Analytic Approximation of Energy Resolution in Cascaded Gaseous Detectors
title_full Analytic Approximation of Energy Resolution in Cascaded Gaseous Detectors
title_fullStr Analytic Approximation of Energy Resolution in Cascaded Gaseous Detectors
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