Maria Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Institut für Kernphysik, Arbeitsgruppe Frekers
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Micro-tracking devices and high resolution opto-electronic components for fast real-time and multi-dimensional read-out

European

European Research Project
Contract Number
ERBFMRXCT980196

High resolution tracking detectors for charged particles developed for high-energy particle physics, may also be applied in other fields like nuclear physics, solid state physics, biology and medicine.
Our detector is made of
capillaries filled with liquid scintillator and read out by an optoelectronic chain with a Megapixel charged coupled device (CCD) at its end. Two prototype setups of this detector have been assembled at CERN in the wide band neutrino beam to study their characteristics for possible applications in future neutrino physics experiments (for example the wavelenght shifting fiber readout in OPERA or NICE). They are placed in front of the CHORUS detector to make use of the particle identification and tracking facilities of this detector. One the prototype setup is working with an optoelectronic chain which consists out of normal image intensifiers coupled to an external CCD. In the second setup an electron bombarded Megapixel CCD (EBCCD) is integrated in the tube and backside illuminated. In order to have a maximum efficiency the CCD is thinned down to a level of 10 microns.

Examples of events taken

The project has been accepted by the CERN-LHCC committee and the TMR evaluation committee.


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Timo Kellmann
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