A continuously running high-rate GEM-TPC for PANDA
Keywords
INSPIRE: book, conference: Siena 2010/06/07, detector, radiation detector, CERN LHC Coll, experimental results, nuclear medicine, programming, particle identification, calorimeter, tracking detector, electronics, trigger, data acquisition
Abstract
The P@?ANDA fixed target experiment planned at FAIR will investigate fundamental questions of non-perturbative QCD. It makes use of a cooled antiproton beam (momentum: 1.5 to 15GeV/c) and will reach luminosities of up to 2@?10^3^2cm^-^2s^-^1, yiel ding a p@?p-annihilation rate of 2@?10^7s^-^1. One option for the central tracker of P@?ANDA is a cylindrical, ungated, continuously running TPC with GEM-based gas amplification stage.
