<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< CRC News No.1976:2012年 11月 5日 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CRC会員 各位                             CRC事務局 *****************< 11/13 KEK測定器開発室セミナー >************************ 皆様 KEK測定器開発室では高エネルギー・原子核およびその関連分野の測定器技術・ 応用に関する知見を深めるため、不定期でセミナーを開催しております。 以下の内容でKEK測定器開発室セミナーを開催します。 多数ご参集いただきますようよろしくお願いします。 TV会議システム等での中継も可能です。 ご希望の方は担当者までお問い合わせください。 KEK測定器開発室 ---------------------- KEK DTP Seminar ---------------------- Title : Latest results of the ILC Large TPC Prototype (LPTPC) Speaker : Dr. Gilles De Lentdecker (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Date : November 13, 16:00~17:00 Place : Room 345, Building 4, 3rd floor, KEK Tsukuba campus Abstract: A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is a candidate for the central tracker of the future International Linear Collider (ILC) detectors. TPCs have already demonstrated very good performance in past collider experiments. In order to obtain one order of magnitude improvement in momentum resolution and the highest possible track recognition efficiency, the Linear Collider TPC (LCTPC) Collaboration is pursuing R&D activities to find the best state-of-the-art technology for the TPC. For ILC the TPC would have a diameter of 3.6 m and a length of 4.3 m. It should provide 200 space points with pad readout along a particle track, with a spatial resolution of 100 μm in the Rφ plane. To achieve these performances, a TPC equipped with Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD) instead of Multiwire Proportional Chambers (MWPC) is needed. Therefore the LCTPC Collaboration has built a large TPC prototype (LPTPC), with a diameter of 750 mm and a length of 600 mm, which can be equipped with Micromegas or GEMs as amplification structures. Since the end of 2008, the LPTPC has been exposed during several weeks to an electron beam of up to 6 GeV at DESY, in presence of a magnetic field of up to 1.0 Tesla. The LPTPC is not only a testing bed for several readout techniques based on MPGDs it is also a unique opportunity to understand the issues which arise when constructing such a large TPC. In this talk we will first present the experience summarized above and then focus on the preliminary results obtained recently with the LPTPC equipped with 6 Micromegas modules, at the DESY test beam T24, in a geometry allowing the recording of tracks traversing the full radial distance of the TPC. The 6 Micromegas modules have a lower anode resistivity compared to previous versions, 3 MΩ/?, and have been equipped with the new integrated electronic Front-End boards using the AFTER chip. This geometry allows new studies that will be discussed: performance in cracks, module misalignment and distortions. Contact : Keisuke Fujii (keisuke.fujii_at_kek.jp) KEKDTP seminar web page :http://rd.kek.jp/seminar_01.html =====================================