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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 174, 2018
4th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD 2015)
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Article Number | 01010 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Applications | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817401010 | |
Published online | 21 February 2018 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817401010
MICROMEGAS calibration for ACTAR TPC
Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DSM-CNRS/IN2P3, Bvd Henri Becquerel, 14076 Caen, France
a e-mail: mauss@ganil.fr
Published online: 21 February 2018
Active targets, such as the ACtive TARget and Time Projection Chamber (ACTAR TPC) being developed at GANIL, are detection systems that operate on the basis of a time projection chamber but where the filling gas also serves as a thick target for nuclear reactions. In nuclear physics experiments, the energy resolution is of primary importance to identify the reaction products and to precisely reconstruct level schemes of nuclei. These measurements are based on the energy deposited on a pixelated pad plane. A MICROMEGAS detector is used in ACTAR TPC for the ionization electron collection and amplification, and it is a major contributor to the energy dispersion through, for example, inhomogeneities of the amplification gap. A variation of one percent in the gap can lead to an amplitude variation of more than two percent which is of the same order as the resolution obtained with an energy deposition of 5 MeV. One way to calibrate the pad plane is through the use of a two dimensional source scanning table. It is used to calibrate the gain inhomogeneities and, using MAGBOLTZ calculations, deduce the corresponding gap variations. The inverse of this method would allow the relative gain variations to be calculated for the different gas mixtures and pressures used in experiments with ACTAR TPC.
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