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Nuclear Physics Tuesday<br />

HK 14.16 Tue 10:30 Foyer Chemie<br />

Tracking Capabilities of COMPASS GEM Detectors † — •Frank<br />

Simon 1 , Jan Friedrich 2 , Boris Grube 2 , Bernhard Ketzer 3 ,<br />

Igor Konorov 2 , Stephan Paul 2 ,andFabio Sauli 3 for the COM-<br />

PASS collaboration — 1 Max–Plank–Institut für Physik, München, Germany<br />

— 2 Physik–Department E18 TU München, Garching, Germany —<br />

3 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland<br />

For the small angle tracking of the COMPASS Experiment at CERN’s<br />

SPS accelerator, a total of 20 triple–GEM detectors, each with an active<br />

area of 31×31 cm 2 , are used. Prior to their successful operation in<br />

the COMPASS physics run in 2001, the detectors were tested in various<br />

particle beams to determine their tracking capabilities. The spatial<br />

resolution was shown to be better than 50 µm and an efficiency of 99%<br />

was reached for minimum–ionizing particles. The GEM detectors are<br />

equipped with an orthogonal two–dimensional projective readout that<br />

leads to a correlation between the charge collected on both readout coordinates.<br />

The charge ratio has a mean value close to unity and a width<br />

σ

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