Successful operation of hole-type gaseous detectors at cryogenic temperatures

Author

Periale, L. ; Peskov, V. ; Iacobaeus, C. ; Francke, T. ; Lund-Jensen, B. ; Pavlopoulos, P. ; Picchi, P. ; Pietropaolo, F. ; Tokanai, F.

Author_Institution

CERN, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

16-22 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

1147

Abstract

We have demonstrated that hole-type gaseous detectors, GEMs and capillary plates, can operate up to 77 K. For example, a single capillary plate can operate at gains of above 10³ in the entire temperature interval between 300 until 77 K. The same capillary plate combined with CsI photocathodes could operate perfectly well at gains (depending on gas mixtures) of 100-1000. Obtained results may open new fields of applications for capillary plates as detectors of UV light and charge particles at cryogenic temperatures: noble liquid TPCs, WIMP detectors or LXe scintillating calorimeters and cryogenic PETs.

Keywords

cryogenics; electron multiplier detectors; gas scintillation detectors; photocathodes; 77 to 300 K; CsI photocathodes; GEMs; LXe scintillating calorimeters; UV light detector; WIMP detectors; capillary plates; charge particle detector; cryogenic PETs; cryogenic temperatures; gas mixtures; hole-type gaseous detectors; noble liquid TPCs; Cathodes; Charge measurement; Cryogenics; Current measurement; Gamma ray detection; Gamma ray detectors; Photodetectors; Plasma temperature; Position sensitive particle detectors; Solid scintillation detectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8700-7

Electronic_ISBN

1082-3654

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462405

Filename

1462405