Laser test of the prototype of CEE time projection chamber

Nuclear Science and Techniques - Tập 29 - Trang 1-5 - 2018
Wen Huang1,2, Fei Lu1, He Li1, He Dong1, Yong-jin Ye1, Chen-Sheng Zhou1, Long-Xiang Liu1, Long Du1, Xiao-Hai Jin1, Peng-Liu1, Jin-Hui Chen1, Song Zhang1, Chen Zhong1, Chen Wu1, Qi-Te Li3, Hong-Liang Zang3, Yu-Cheng Ge3, Cheng-Jian Lin4, Hui-Ming Jia4, Nan-Ru Ma4, Dong-Xi Wang4, Peng Ma5, Jun Xu1, De-Qing Fang1, Yu-Gang Ma1
1Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
3State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
4China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
5Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

Tóm tắt

A prototype thick-GEM-based cooling storage ring external-target experiment (CEE) time projection chamber (TPC) is constructed and tested with the pulsed ultraviolet laser beams. The results indicate that the prototype TPC has a good performance in three-dimensional track resolution. In X direction the position resolution is about 0.2 mm, and in Y direction the position resolution is about 0.5 mm. The results also determine that the energy resolution is about 5.4%, which achieve the requirements of the CEE experiment and can be used to study the nuclear state equation and the quantum chromo dynamics.

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