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MONOLITH: a next generation experiment for athospheric neutrinos
MONOLITH is a massive magnetized tracking calorimeter, optimized for the
detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos, proposed at the Gran Sasso laboratory
in Italy. The main goal is to establish (or reject) the neutrino oscillation
hypothesis through an explicit observation of the full first oscillation swing
(the ``L/E pattern''). Its performance, status and prospects are briefly
reviewed.Comment: Talk given at Europhysics Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (NOW2000),
Otranto, Italy, September 9-16, 2000 (4 pages, 3 figures
Further developments and tests of microstrip gas counters with resistive electrodes
We present results from further tests of Microstrip Gas Counters (MSGCs) with
resistive electrodes. The maim advantage of this detector is that it is
spark-protected: in contrast to "classical" MSGCs with metallic electrodes,
sparks in this new detector do not destroy its electrodes. As a consequence the
MSGC with resistive electrodes is more reliable in operation which may open new
avenues in applications. One of them which is under investigation now is the
use of Resistive electrodes MSGC (R-MSGC) as photodetector in some particular
designs of noble liquid dark matter detectors.Comment: Presented at the RD-51 mini-week at CERN, January 17, 201
An improved design of spark-protected microstrip gas counters (R-MSGC)
We have developed microstrip gas counters manufactured on standard printed
circuit board and having the following features: resistive cathode strips, thin
(10 micron) metallic anode strips and electrodes protected against surface
discharges by a Coverlay layer at their edges. These features allow the
detector to operate at gas gains as high as can be achieve with the best
microstrip gas counters manufactured on glass substrates. We believe that after
further developments this type of detectors can compete in some applications
with other micropattern detectors, for example MICROMEGAS.Comment: Presented at the 7th RD51 Collaboration meeting, CERN, April 201
Demonstration of new possibilities of multilayer technology on resistive microstrip/ microdot detectors
The first successful attempts to optimize the electric field in Resistive
Microstrip Gas Chamber and resistive microdot detectors using additional field
shaping strips located inside the detector substrate are describedComment: Presented at the RD-51 mmini week, CERN, June 201
First tests of "bulk" MICROMEGAS with resistive cathode mesh
We present the first results from tests of a MICROMEGAS detector manufactured
using the so-called "bulk" technology and having a resistive cathode mesh
instead of the conventional metallic one. This detector operates as usual
MICROMEGAS, but in the case of sparks, which may appear at high gas gains, the
resistive mesh reduces their current and makes the sparks harmless. This
approach could be complementary to the ongoing efforts of various groups to
develop spark-protected MICROMEGAS with resistive anode planes
New designs of resistive microstrip gaseous detectors (R-MSGCs)
A new family of spark-protected micropattern gaseous detectors is introduced:
a 2-D sensitive restive microstrip counter and hybrid detectors, which combine
in one design a resistive GEM with a microstrip detector. These novel detectors
have several important advantages over other conventional micropattern
detectors and are unique for applications like the readout detectors for dual
phase noble liquid TPCs and RICHs
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