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A Cosmic-Ray Muon Hodoscope Based on Up-down THGEM Detectors |
| PANG Hong-Chao1, LIU Hong-Bang2,4**, CHEN Shi2,4, MIN Jian3, ZHENG Yang-Heng2, XIE Yi-Gang2,3, TANG Ai-Song5, YANG Ya-Dan5, DONG Yang5, LI Min5 |
1Division of Radiation Safety, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413
2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
3Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
4Department of Physics, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004
5Second Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp., Beijing 100049 |
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PANG Hong-Chao, LIU Hong-Bang, CHEN Shi et al 2012 Chin. Phys. Lett. 29 012901 |
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Abstract Thick gas electron multipliers (THGEMs) are new types of gas detectors with merits such as a high counting rate, anti-radiation, high gain, robustness and relatively low cost. We establish an up-down THGEM detector hodoscope system for detecting and displaying muon tracks. Muon tracks can be well observed with the detectors and the present study lays an important technological foundation for the domestic and mass production of THGEMs.
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Received: 16 October 2011
Published: 07 February 2012
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(Gas-filled counters: ionization chambers, proportional, and avalanche counters)
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(Neutrino, muon, pion, and other elementary particle detectors; cosmic ray detectors)
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