Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1823066 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 2013 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

Neutron GEM-based detectors represent a new frontier of diagnostic devices in neutron-linked physics applications such as detectors for fusion experiments (Croci et al., 2012 [1]) and spallation sources (Murtas et al., 2012 [2]). Besides, detectors installed in HEP experiments (like LHC at CERN) are dip in a high flux neutron field. For example, the TOTEM T2 GEM telescope (Bagliesi et al., 2010 [3]) at LHC is currently installed very close to the beam pipe where a high intensity (>104ncm−2s−1) neutron background is present. In order to assess the capability (particularly related to discharge probability) of working in intense neutrons environment, a 10×10cm2 Triple GEM detector has been tested using a high flux (105ncm−2s−1) neutron beam. The neutron-induced discharge probability PDisch was measured to be 1.37×10−71.37×10−7 at an effective gain G=5×104G=5×104. In addition, the different types of neutron interactions within the detector were fully explained through a GEANT4 simulation.

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