Tracking applications with MPGDs at Jefferson Lab and future facilities

With advances in photolithography and micro processing, Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) are replacing the old generation wire-based gaseous tracking detectors to play an ever prominent and pivotal role in large particle physics experiments in nuclear physics (NP) and high energy physics (HEP) where low mass tracking detectors are required. MPGD trackers provide excellent position resolution (~70 µm) and fast timing capabilities (~10 ns) covering a large detection area O (m²) for precision tracking and time-based pattern recognition during track finding in high particle rate environments. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of the three most advanced MPGD technologies, Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM), Micro Mesh Gaseous Structures (Micromegas) and Resistive Micro Well Detector (µRWELL). I will explore applications as large acceptance tracking systems in current and future experiments at Jefferson Lab and in the central region of ePIC detector of the future Electron Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). I will also briefly present the recent development of MPGDs for particle identification (PID) applications such as the development of MPGD-based transition radiation detector (GEM-TRDs) for electron ID and fast timing detector with tens of ps level time resolution (PICOSEC) for time-of-flight (TOF) applications and alternative single photon photosensor readout option for RICH detectors.