TPC development by the LCTPC collaboration for the ILD detector at ILC

TL;DR

This paper discusses the development and testing of a Micropattern Gaseous Detector-based TPC for the ILD detector at ILC, demonstrating improved resolution and ion backflow suppression through various readout concepts and a new gating method.

Contribution

It presents the design, testing, and validation of MPGD readout modules and a novel gating concept for the ILD TPC, advancing detector performance.

Findings

Achieved required space point resolutions in test beams

Developed an effective ion backflow suppression gating concept

Validated multiple readout configurations for the TPC

Abstract

The International Large Detector (ILD) at the International Linear Collider (ILC) requires significantly improved subdetector systems to comply with the envisioned performance. Its central tracking detector is a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) which is equipped with Micropattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD) readout modules. The LCTPC collaboration was founded in 2007 to design such a MPGD-based TPC and to build and test demonstrator modules. For this an experimental setup at DESY, Hamburg, was built, where four different readout concepts have been studied in many successful test beam campaigns since 2010. It could be demonstrated that the required transverse and longitudinal space point resolutions can be reached. Also, a new gating concept was developed that can effectively eliminate the ion backflow, while marginally degrading the performance of the detector.