Radiation detectors based on gas electron multipliers

AF Buzulutskov - Instruments and experimental techniques, 2007 - Springer
Remarkable features of gas electron multipliers (GEMs) make them attractive for numerous
applications in high-energy physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and the medical-imaging …

The Thick-COBRA: a new gaseous electron multiplier for radiation detectors

FD Amaro, C Santos, J Veloso, A Breskin… - Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The operation principle and preliminary results of a novel gas-avalanche patterned hole
electron multiplier, the Thick-COBRA (THCOBRA), are presented. This micro-hole structure …

Ion-induced effects in GEM and GEM/MHSP gaseous photomultipliers for the UV and the visible spectral range

A Breskin, D Mörmann, A Lyashenko, R Chechik… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2005 - Elsevier
We report on the progress in the study of cascaded GEM and GEM/MHSP gas avalanche
photomultipliers operating at atmospheric pressure, with CsI and bialkali photocathodes …

Further progress in ion back-flow reduction with patterned gaseous hole-multipliers

AV Lyashenko, A Breskin, R Chechik… - Journal of …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
A new idea on electrostatic deviation and capture of back-drifting avalanche-ions in
cascaded gaseous hole-multipliers is presented. It involves a flipped reversed-bias Micro …

THCOBRA: Ion back flow reduction in patterned THGEM cascades

J Veloso, CA Santos, F Pereira, CDR Azevedo… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2011 - Elsevier
A new concept for avalanche ion back-flow (IBF) reduction in cascaded gaseous detectors is
presented. The Thick-COBRA is a Thick-GEM (THGEM) with a patterned electrode, aiming at …

Advances in ion back-flow reduction in cascaded gaseous electron multipliers incorporating R-MHSP elements

AV Lyashenko, A Breskin, R Chechik… - Journal of …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We present and discuss in details a concept for the reduction of ion back-flow in GEM-based
cascaded gaseous electron multipliers, by incorporating Micro-Hole & Strip Plate (MHSP) …

Electric and Photoelectric Gates for ion backflow suppression in multi-GEM structures

A Buzulutskov, A Bondar - Journal of Instrumentation, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
A new approach to suppress ion backflow in multi-GEM structures is suggested. In this
approach, the potential difference applied across the gap between two adjacent GEMs is …

The Photon-Assisted Cascaded Electron Multiplier: a concept for potential avalanche-ion blocking

J Veloso, FD Amaro, JMF Dos Santos… - Journal of …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present a Photon-Assisted Cascaded Electron Multipliers (PACEM) which has a
potential for ion back-flow blocking in gaseous radiation detectors: the avalanche from a first …

ДЕТЕКТОРЫ ИЗЛУЧЕНИЙ НА ОСНОВЕ ГАЗОВЫХ ЭЛЕКТРОННЫХ УМНОЖИТЕЛЕЙ (обзор)

АФ Бузулуцков - Приборы и техника эксперимента, 2007 - elibrary.ru
Замечательные свойства газовых электронных умножителей (г. э. у.) делают их
привлекательными для многочисленных применений в физике высоких энергий …

Simulation on the transparency of electrons and ion back flow for a time projection chamber based on staggered multiple thgems

M Wu, Q Liu, P Li, S Chen, B Wang, W Shen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The IBF and the transparent rate of electrons are two essential indicators of TPC, which
affect the energy resolution and counting rate respectively. In this paper, we propose several …