Installation & Commissioning of GEM detectors for the DarkLight Experiment at TRIUMF
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Abstract
The DarkLight experiment will search for a dark photon in the 10-20 MeV/c2 mass region and examine the reported evidence for the X17 boson using electroproduction of electron positron pairs from a tantalum target. The first stage of the experiment has been constructed and is scheduled to run during the fall of 2025.
The experimental setup consists of two high-resolution magnetic spectrometers, with the focal planes instrumented identically with two layers of high spatial-resolution Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) detectors and trigger scintillator hodoscope arrays, suitable to operate with high efficiency under high-intensity conditions. This presentation will give an overview of the installation and commissioning work of the GEM detectors.
The GEMs used in this experiment have been built by the Kohl group at Hampton University, supported by DOE DE-SC0013941 & previous NSF MRI PHY-1436680 award.
The experimental setup consists of two high-resolution magnetic spectrometers, with the focal planes instrumented identically with two layers of high spatial-resolution Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) detectors and trigger scintillator hodoscope arrays, suitable to operate with high efficiency under high-intensity conditions. This presentation will give an overview of the installation and commissioning work of the GEM detectors.
The GEMs used in this experiment have been built by the Kohl group at Hampton University, supported by DOE DE-SC0013941 & previous NSF MRI PHY-1436680 award.
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Presenters
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Manjukrishna Suresh
Hampton University
Authors
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Manjukrishna Suresh
Hampton University
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Michael Kohl
Hampton University & Jefferson Lab, Hampton University
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Ryan Richards
Hampton University
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Dulitha Jayakodige
Hampton University