Search Results - "Sekhniaidze, G."

A spark-resistant bulk-micromegas chamber for high-rate applications by Alexopoulos, T., Burnens, J., de Oliveira, R., Glonti, G., Pizzirusso, O., Polychronakos, V., Sekhniaidze, G., Tsipolitis, G., Wotschack, J.

“…We report on the design and performance of a spark-resistant bulk-micromegas chamber. The principle of this design lends itself to the construction of…”
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Resistive Micromegas high-rate and long-term ageing studies at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility by Farina, E., Gonzalez, B. Alvarez, Iengo, P., Longo, L., Samarati, J., Sekhniaidze, G., Sidiropoulou, O., Wotschack, J.

“…The LHC experiments are undergoing important upgrades for the High Luminosity LHC project. Experiments will be required to operate under three times higher…”
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Performance studies of resistive-strip bulk micromegas detectors in view of the ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade by Alexopoulos, T., Bianco, M., Biglietti, M., Bini, C., Byszewski, M., Iakovidis, G., Iengo, P., Iodice, M., Karentzos, E., Leontsinis, S., Ntekas, K., Petrucci, F., Sekhniaidze, G., Sidiropoulou, O., Vanadia, M., Wotschack, J.

“…The ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has endorsed the resistive-strip micromegas technology for the high luminosity upgrade of the…”
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Pixelated resistive Micromegas detector for high-rate environment by Alviggi, M., Camerlingo, M.T., Pietra, M. Della, Di Donato, C., Di Nardo, R., Franchellucci, S., Gimmillaro, C., Iengo, P., Iodice, M., Petrucci, F., Sekhniaidze, G., Sessa, M.

“…The R&D work reported in this paper has been devoted to the production and test of pixelated resistive micromegas detectors able to track particles in a…”
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Small-pad resistive Micromegas for high rate environment: Performance of different resistive protection concepts by Alviggi, M., Canale, V., Della Pietra, M., Di Donato, C., Farina, E., Franchino, S., Iengo, P., Iodice, M., Longo, L., Petrucci, F., Rossi, E., Salamanna, G., Sekhniaidze, G., Sidiropoulou, O.

“…We present the development of resistive Micromegas with small pad readout aiming at precision tracking without efficiency loss up to several MHz/cm2. Several…”
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Small-pads resistive Micromegas prototype by Di Donato, C., Alviggi, M., Camerlingo, M.T., Canale, V., Della Pietra, M., Iengo, P., Iodice, M., Petrucci, F., Sekhniaidze, G.

“…Detectors at future accelerators will require operation at rates up to three orders of magnitude higher than 15 kHz/cm2 the hit rates expected in the current…”
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Mesh geometry impact on Micromegas performance with an Exchangeable Mesh prototype by Kuger, F., Bianco, M., Iengo, P., Sekhniaidze, G., Veenhof, R., Wotschack, J.

“…The reconstruction precision of gaseous detectors is limited by losses of primary electrons during signal formation. In addition to common gas related losses,…”
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The MU-RAY experiment. An application of SiPM technology to the understanding of volcanic phenomena by Anastasio, A., Ambrosino, F., Basta, D., Bonechi, L., Brianzi, M., Bross, A., Callier, S., Cassese, F., Castellini, G., Ciaranfi, R., Cimmino, L., D'Alessandro, R., De Fazio, B., de La Taille, C., Garufi, F., Iacobucci, G., Martini, M., Masone, V., Mattone, C., Miyamoto, S., Montesi, M.C., Nishiyama, R., Noli, P., Orazi, M., Parascandolo, L., Passeggio, G., Peluso, R., Pla-Dalmau, A., Raux, L., Rocco, R., Rubinov, P., Saracino, G., Scarlini, E., Scarpato, G., Sekhniaidze, G., Starodubtsev, O., Strolin, P., Taketa, A., Tanaka, H.K.M., Tanaka, M., Uchida, T.

“…The purpose of the MU-RAY project is to develop an innovative approach to the study of volcanoes and their monitoring based on a particle physics approach. The…”
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The MU-RAY detector for muon radiography of volcanoes by Anastasio, A., Ambrosino, F., Basta, D., Bonechi, L., Brianzi, M., Bross, A., Callier, S., Caputo, A., Ciaranfi, R., Cimmino, L., D'Alessandro, R., D'Auria, L., de La Taille, C., Energico, S., Garufi, F., Giudicepietro, F., Lauria, A., Macedonio, G., Martini, M., Masone, V., Mattone, C., Montesi, M.C., Noli, P., Orazi, M., Passeggio, G., Peluso, R., Pla-Dalmau, A., Raux, L., Rubinov, P., Saracino, G., Scarlini, E., Scarpato, G., Sekhniaidze, G., Starodubtsev, O., Strolin, P., Taketa, A., Tanaka, H.K.M., Vanzanella, A.

“…The MU-RAY detector has been designed to perform muon radiography of volcanoes. The possible use on the field introduces several constraints. First the…”
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Development of large size Micromegas detector for the upgrade of the ATLAS Muon system by Alexopoulos, T., Altintas, A.A., Alviggi, M., Arik, M., Cetin, S.A., Chernyatine, V., Cheu, E., Della Volpe, D., Dris, M., Fassouliotis, D., Gazis, E.N., Giordano, R., Gratchev, V., Guan, L., Iengo, P., Ioannou, P., Li, C., Johns, K., Kaushik, V., Khodinov, A., Kourkoumelis, C., Maltezos, S., Mermigka, K., Muller, H., Nikolopoulos, K., Park, W., Persembe, S., Petridou, C., Petti, R., Polychronakos, V., Purohit, M.V., Sampsonidis, D., Sekhniaidze, G., Shao, M., Sun, Y.J., Tsipolitis, G., Veenhof, R., Wang, X.L., Wotschack, J., Wu, S.X., Zhao, T., Zhao, Z.G.

“…With the luminosity upgrade of the LHC machine (SLHC, Super-LHC), the Muon system of the ATLAS experiment at CERN will also need a detector upgrade in the…”
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The MU-RAY project: Volcano radiography with cosmic-ray muons by Ambrosi, G., Ambrosino, F., Battiston, R., Bross, A., Callier, S., Cassese, F., Castellini, G., Ciaranfi, R., Cozzolino, F., D’Alessandro, R., de La Taille, C., Iacobucci, G., Marotta, A., Masone, V., Martini, M., Nishiyama, R., Noli, P., Orazi, M., Parascandolo, L., Parascandolo, P., Passeggio, G., Peluso, R., Pla-Dalmau, A., Raux, L., Rocco, R., Rubinov, P., Saracino, G., Scarpato, G., Sekhniaidze, G., Strolin, P., Tanaka, H.K.M., Tanaka, M., Trattino, P., Uchida, T., Yokoyamao, I.

“…Cosmic-ray muon radiography is a technique for imaging the variation of density inside the top few 100 m of a volcanic cone. With resolutions up to 10s of…”
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Characterization of the ATLAS Micromegas quadruplet prototype by Sidiropoulou, O., Bianco, M., Danielsson, H., Degrange, J., Farina, E.M., Gomez, F.P., Iengo, P., Kuger, F., Lin, T.H., Schott, M., Sekhniaidze, G., Valderanis, C., Vergain, M., Wotschack, J.

“…A Micromegas [1] detector with four active layers, serving as prototype for the upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer [2], was designed and constructed in…”
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Ageing Studies on the First Resistive-MicroMeGaS Quadruplet at GIF++ Preliminary Results by Alvarez Gonzalez, B., Bianco, M., Farina, E., Iengo, P., Kuger, F., Lin, T., Longo, L., Sekhniaidze, G., Sidiropoulou, O., Schott, M., Valderanis, C., Wotschack, J.

“…A resistive-MicroMeGaS quadruplet built at CERN has been installed at the new CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF++) with the aim of carrying out a long-term…”
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Construction and Performance Studies of Large Resistive Micromegas Quadruplets by Farina, E., Iengo, P., Bianco, M., Sidiropoulou, O., Kuger, F., Sekhniaidze, G., Vergain, M., Wotschack, J., Danielsson, H., Degrange, J., De Oliveira, R., Schott, M., Lin, Tai-Hua, Valderanis, C., Düdder, A.

“…In view of the use of Micromegas detectors for the upgrade of the ATLAS muon system, two detector quadruplets with an area of 0.3 m 2 per plane serving as…”
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Performance of Small-Pad Resistive Micromegas for operation under high particle flow by Alviggi, M. G., Camerlingo, M. T., Canale, V., Pietra, M. Della, Di Donato, C., Iengo, P., Iodice, M., Petrucci, F., Sekhniaidze, G.

“…Motivated mainly by future upgrades at high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) and detectors at future accelerators, most of the HEP R&D collaborations are focusing on…”
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The MU-RAY project: Summary of the round-table discussions by Beauducel, F., Bross, A., Buontempo, S., D'Auria, L., Déclais, Y., De Lellis, G., Festa, G., Gasparini, P., Gibert, D., Hoshina, K., Iacobucci, G., Lesparre, N., Macedonio, G., Marotta, A., Marteau, J., Martini, M., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Moura, C. A., Orazi, M., Pla-Dalmau, A., Pisanti, O., Pastor, S., Peluso, R., Rubinov, P., Scarpato, G., Sekhniaidze, G., Strolin, P., Taira, H., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, H. K. M., Tarantola, A., Uchida, T., Vassallo, M., Yokoyama, I., Zollo, A.

“…The MU-RAY project has the challenging aim of performing muon radiography of the summit cone of Mt. Vesuvius. The muon telescopes developed for this purpose…”
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New results on ATLAS RPC's aging at CERN's GIF by Aielli, G., Alviggi, M., Ammosov, V., Bianco, M., Biglietti, M., Camarri, P., Canale, V., Caprio, M., Cardarelli, R., Carlino, G., Chiodini, G., Conventi, F., de Asmundis, R., Della Pietra, M., Della Volpe, D., Di Ciaccio, A., Di Simone, A., Gorini, E., Grancagnolo, F., Iengo, P., Liberti, B., Nisati, A., Pastore, F., Patricelli, S., Perrino, R., Primavera, M., Santonico, R., Sekhniaidze, G., Solfaroli, E., Spagnolo, S., Sviridov, Yu, Vari, R., Veneziano, S., Zaets, V.

“…In order to ensure that the resistive plate chambers used in the ATLAS experiment will not show, during their operation, any abnormal aging effect which could…”
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High granularity resistive micromegas for future detectors by Biglietti, M., Alviggi, M., Camerlingo, M.T., Pietra, M. Della, Di Nardo, R., Iengo, P., Iodice, M., Petrucci, F., Sekhniaidze, G., Sessa, M.

“…The resistive Micromegas technology can stably operate up to O (10 MHz/cm2) particle rate thanks to novel resistive spark-protection structures suitable for…”
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Ageing test of the ATLAS RPCs at X5-GIF by Aielli, G., Alviggi, M., Ammosov, V., Biglietti, M., Camarri, P., Canale, V., Caprio, M., Cardarelli, R., Carlino, G., Cataldi, G., Chiodini, G., Conventi, F., de Asmundis, R., Della Pietra, M., Della Volpe, D., Di Ciaccio, A., Di Simone, A., Di Stante, L., Gorini, E., Grancagnolo, F., Iengo, P., Liberti, B., Nisati, A., Pastore, Fr, Pastori, E., Patricelli, S., Perrino, R., Primavera, M., Santonico, R., Sekhniaidze, G., Spagnolo, S., Sviridov, Yu, Vari, R., Veneziano, S., Zaets, V.

“…An ageing test of three ATLAS production RPC stations is in course at X5-GIF, the CERN irradiation facility. The chamber efficiencies are monitored using…”
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First results of the cosmic rays test of the RPC of the ATLAS muon spectrometer at LHC by Alviggi, M., Canale, V., Caprio, M., Carlino, G., de Asmundis, R., Della Pietra, M., della Volpe, D., Iengo, P., Patricelli, S., Sekhniaidze, G.

“…The trigger for the Barrel Muon Spectrometer of the ATLAS experiment at LHC will be given by means of Resistive Plate Chambers working in avalanche mode…”
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