The novel XYU-GEM to resolve ambiguities

• Published in: Journal of instrumentation 2023-06, Vol.18 (6), p.C06025
• Main Authors: Flöthner, K.J., Brunbauer, F., Ferry, S., Garcia, F., Janssens, D., Ketzer, B., Lisowska, M., Muller, H., de Oliveira, R., Oliveri, E., Orlandini, G., Pfeiffer, D., Ropelewski, L., Samarati, J., Sauli, F., Scharenberg, L., van Stenis, M., Utrobicic, A., Veenhof, R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Detector design and construction technologies and materials; Gaseous imaging and tracking detectors; Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC, GEM, THGEM, RETHGEM, MHSP, MICROPIC, MICROMEGAS, InGrid, etc); X-ray detectors
• ISSN: 1748-0221; 1748-0221
• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/18/06/C06025

Removing ambiguities within a single stage becomes crucial when one can not use multiple detectors behind each other to resolve them which naturally is the case for neutral radiation. An example would be RICH detectors. Commonly, pixilated readout is choosen for this purpose. However, this causes a remarkable increase in quantity of channels. Thus, the overall costs of the detector would increase. Therefore, the XYU-GEM was proposed as a three coordinate strip-readout which is combined with a triple GEM detector. The readout complements a common XY readout with an additional projection which is tilted by 45°. The overdetermination due to three projections can be used to resovle ambiguities. Following the detector design will be explained, first measurements discussed to understand the response of the detector and a way to change the charge sharing without changing the manufacturing parameters of the readout.