LEETECH facility as a flexible source of low energy electrons

TL;DR

LEETECH is a newly developed flexible facility that generates low energy, mono-chromatic electron samples for detector research and development, enabling testing of gaseous detectors and innovative Micromegas/InGrid technologies.

Contribution

This paper introduces the design and simulation-based evaluation of LEETECH, a versatile electron source facility for detector R&D and calibration.

Findings

LEETECH can produce adjustable energy and intensity electron samples.

It is suitable for testing gaseous tracking detectors.

LEETECH supports studies of advanced Micromegas/InGrid detector concepts.

Abstract

A new versatile facility LEETECH for detector R&D, tests and calibration is designed and constructed. It uses electrons produced by the photoinjector PHIL at LAL, Orsay and provides a powerful tool for wide range R&D studies of different detector concepts delivering "mono-chromatic" samples of low energy electrons with adjustable energy and intensity. Among other innovative instrumentation techniques, LEETECH will be used for testing various gaseous tracking detectors and studying new Micromegas/InGrid concept which has very promising characteristics of spatial resolution and can be a good candidate for particle tracking and identification. In this paper the importance and expected characteristics of such facility based on detailed simulation studies are addressed.