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Gaseous Detectors R&D


// Detector development for particle and nuclear physics

Desenvolvimento de Detectores para Física de Partículas e Nuclear

The Gaseous Detectors R&D Group at LIP studies the performance of gas detectors in the challenging range of low energy (below a few hundred keV), and more recently also in the high energy range (of a few MeV). Its main research areas at the moment are the study of the drift parameters of electrons and ions in the gases used as detector’s fillings (noble gases and their mixtures with moleccular ones), with the purpose of finding the more suitable one for each application, namely for large volume detectors or low-energy range ones. Custom made Monte Carlo simulation software specifically developed for the study of these parameters is used to compare and explain the experimental results obtained with the equipment that exists in the lab. This equipment was mainly developed by the group and includes gas detector prototypes and also experimental systems to measure the required drift parameters, namely ion and electron mobility and also electron diffusion.

The group knowledge in this area is the basis of its involvement in the NEXT collaboration, that uses a high pressure xenon TPC to search for neutrinoless double beta decay, and also in the RD51collaboration at CERN, that aims at developing new techniques in gaseous detectors, for which the knowledge of ion and electron drift parameters is very important.

// Research Area
Física Experimental de Partículas com aceleradores
Contacts
Group Leader:  
Filomena Santos

filomena@coimbra.lip.pt


 

  • Demonstration of neutrinoless double beta decay searches in gaseous xenon with NEXT
  • Author(s):  NEXT Collaboration (114 authors)
  • Submission:  2023-09-27, Acceptance:  2023-09-27, Publication:  2023-09-27
  • Reference:  J. High Energy Phys. 9 (2023) 190  

  • NEXT-CRAB-0: a high pressure gaseous xenon time projection chamber with a direct VUV camera based readout
  • Author(s):  NEXT Collaboration (118 authors)
  • Submission:  2023-08-01, Acceptance:  2023-08-01, Publication:  2023-08-01
  • Reference:  J. Instrum. 18 (2023) P08006  

  • Reflectance and fluorescence characteristics of PTFE coated with TPB at visible, UV, and VUV as a function of thickness
  • Author(s):  NEXT Collaboration (104 authors)
  • Submission:  2023-03-01, Acceptance:  2023-03-01, Publication:  2023-03-01
  • Reference:  J. Instrum. 18 (2023) P03016  

  • A new experimental system for electron transverse diffusion measurements
  • Author(s):  A. Trindade, J. Escada, J. Maia, R. Curado da Silva, F. Borges, A. Marques, F. Santos
  • Submission:  , Acceptance:  2022-10-08, Publication:  2023-01-01
  • Reference:  Nucl. Inst. Met. A, Volume 1045, 1 January 2023, 167603   View publication

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  • ANTS
  •  Anger camera-type detector simulation and experimental data processing tools.
  •     website


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Afonso Paixão Marques
Coimbra
PhD student

Alexandre Fonseca Trindade
Coimbra
Technician

Carlos Conde
Coimbra
Researcher

Filipa Borges
Coimbra
Researcher

Filomena Santos
Coimbra
Researcher

João Barata
Coimbra
Researcher

José Escada
Coimbra
Researcher



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