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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 80: Instrumentation

HK 80.3: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 7. März 2013, 17:30–17:45, HSZ-405

Energy Calibration of a GEM-TPC with Kr83m — •Roman Schmitz — Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Universität Bonn

A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) readout has been developed with an inner/outer radius of 5/15 cm and a total drift length of 73 cm. It has been used as an inner tracking upgrade for the FOPI experiment at GSI and is planned as a future upgrade to the CBELSA/TAPS experiment. A radioactive ^83mKr source has been produced and integrated into the setup in order to perform an accurate channel-wise relative gain calibration and monitor gain stability to achieve optimal dE/dx resolution. Its gaseous form makes it perfectly suitable for this purpose allowing a full coverage of the readout plane and providing a wide energy range of conversion peaks. Also its half-life of 1.83 h allows for normal detector operation after a short flushing period of several hours. Calibration method and measured energy resolution for different gas mixtures which have been compared to simulation results are presented in this talk. Also first results on gain stability and pressure/temperature-dependence will be showed.
This work is supported by DFG SFB/TR 16.