A concise review on THGEM detectors

By A. Breskin, R. Alon, Marco Cortesi, R. Chechik, J. Miyamoto, V. Dangendorf, J. M. Maia, J. Santos. 2008

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Abstract We briefly review the concept and properties of the THick Gaseous Electron Multiplier (THGEM); it is a robust, high-gain gaseous electron multiplier, manufactured economically by standard printed-circuit drilling and etching technology. Its operation and structure resemble that of gaseous electron multiplier's (GEM's) but with 5–20-fold expanded dimensions. The millimeter-scale hole-size results in good electron transport and in large avalanche-multiplication factors, e.g. reaching 10 7 in double-THGEM cascaded single-photoelectron detectors. The multiplier's material, parameters and shape can be application-tailored; it can operate practically in any counting gas, including noble gases, over a pressure range spanning from 1 mbar to several bars; its operation at cryogenic (LAr) conditions was recently demonstrated. The high gain, sub-millimeter spatial resolution, high counting-rate capability, good timing properties and the possibility of industrial production capability of large-area robust detectors, pave ways towards a broad spectrum of potential applications; some are discussed here in brief.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation

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Citations in the corpus

• DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector (2016, background): “g, Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) [134] or Thick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEMs) [135]) coupled to an anode segmented into small pixels.”
• Liquid noble gas detectors for low energy particle physics (2012, background): “uced discharges to occur. The extent of the multiplication region is larger than in GEMs, which is also an advantage because the same gain can be obtained at a lower field. We refer to review articles [308, 309, 310] and references therein for more detailed information on the operation and present st”