Discharge studies and prevention in the gas electron multiplier (GEM)

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 479, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 294-308

  Bachmann, S ^a   Bressan, A ^a   Capeans M ^c   Deutel, M ^a   Kappler, S ^b   Ketzer, B ^a   Polouektov, A ^d   Ropelewski, L ^a   Sauli, F ^a   Schulte, E ^e   Shekhtman, L ^d   Sokolov, A ^d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gas discharges; Gas electron multiplier; GEM; High rate radiation detector; Streamer

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; GASES; IONIZING RADIATION; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DETECTORS; READOUT SYSTEMS;

GAS DISCHARGES; GAS ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS (GEM);

ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 0036494779     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(01)00931-7     Document Type: Article

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