Development of novel designs of spark-protected micropattern gaseous detectors with resistive electrodes

Abstract

In the last few years many efforts have been made by various groups to develop spark-protected micropattern gaseous detectors equipped with resistive electrodes instead of metallic ones. Great success has recently been achieved with resistive gas electron multipliers (GEMs), resistive micromesh gaseous structures and resistive Well/compteur a trou detectors. In this paper, we will focus on the development of a new family of spark-protected micropattern detectors: the 2D sensitive resistive microstrip counter and the resistive microhole and strip plate, which combines in one design a resistive GEM with a microstrip detector. These innovative detectors are manufactured on standard printed circuit boards by using a simple technology thus reducing the production cost. These novel detectors have several important advantages over other micropattern detectors and are unique for applications like the readout detectors for dual phase noble liquid time projection chambers and ring imaging Cherenkov detectors.