Development and preliminary tests of resistive microdot and microstrip detectors

TL;DR

This paper reports the development and initial testing of novel resistive micropattern gaseous detectors, including microdot-microhole and microgap-microstrip designs, aimed at applications in particle detection, medical imaging, and noble liquid TPCs.

Contribution

It introduces new resistive micropattern detector designs and provides the first preliminary tests, expanding the potential applications of spark-protected gaseous detectors.

Findings

Successful development of microdot-microhole detector for noble liquid TPCs

Initial tests show promising performance of microgap-microstrip detectors for imaging

Potential for high time and position resolution in various applications

Abstract

In the last few years our group have focused on developing various designs of spark-protected micropattern gaseous detectors featuring resistive electrodes instead of the traditional metallic ones: resistive microstrip counters, resistive GEM, resistive MICROMEGAS. These detectors combine in one design the best features of RPCs (spark-protection) and micropattern detectors (a high position resolution). In this paper we report the progress so far made in developing other types of resistive micropattern detectors: a microdot-microhole detector and a microgap-microstrip detector. The former detector is an optimal electron amplifier for some special designs of dual phase noble liquid TPCs, for example with a CsI photocathode immersed inside the noble liquid. Preliminary tests of such a detector, for the first time built and investigated, are reported in this paper. The latter detector is mainly orientated towards medical imaging applications such as X-ray scanners. However, we believe that after a proper gas optimization, these detectors could also achieve a high time resolution and could thus be used in applications as TOF-PET, detection of charged particles with simultaneous high time and position resolution etc.