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DRAFT<br />

Figure 2.4.84: Left panel: TPC detector and associated electronic scheme. Right panel: TPC efficiency<br />

measured for 129 Xe beam at 500 MeV/u as a function of the particle rate.<br />

In this case (momentum measurement) the detector is working as position-sensitive detector recording<br />

single ions. The readout can be improved to reach a dead-time free readout speed of 160<br />

kHz/wire by making use of the CBM-XYTER ASIC and readout boards. These boards are based<br />

on the N-XYTER [29] ASIC for the DETNI project, and are being currently developed at GSI.<br />

2.4.6.3 Diagnostics for fast extraction<br />

For fast extraction mode and intensities above 1 nA capacitive pickups [30] are routinely used to<br />

deduce the beam position. We will use these pickups for the Pre-<strong>Separator</strong> of the <strong>Super</strong>-FRS. The<br />

usual current grids and multi wire chambers (see section 2.4.6.2) can be used to measure fast extracted<br />

beams at lower intensities. For beams with a spill length as short as 50 ns, single ion<br />

tracking is no longer feasible, and only measurements of the bunch profile can be performed. This<br />

problem arises from the large amount of charge (up to several nC) which is deposited in the detector.<br />

The use of a gas detector leads to a long integration time for complete charge collection (~<br />

µs). This causes a spreading of the charge and thus strongly affects the measurement of the beam<br />

profile. Therefore the use of fast electronics and lower gas pressure has been proposed. Recent<br />

investigations have shown that it is advantageous to operate the gas filled current grids at reduced<br />

pressure or even without gas for fast extracted beams. The gas supply system for the relevant<br />

detector systems should therefore provide gas mixtures at reduced pressure down to 1 mbar.<br />

A Beam Profile Detector (BPD) prototype using a variable gas pressure and delay-line read-out<br />

was developed in collaboration with the University of Bratislava within the NUSTAR 3 task of the<br />

FP6 EU <strong>Design</strong> Study for the <strong>Super</strong>-FRS facility. It was successfully tested in November 2007 at<br />

the FRS with fast extracted carbon beams at the highest intensities (several 10 9 ion/spill) from<br />

SIS18. On-line measurements showed excellent stability of the response (beam profile in both x<br />

and y) with still considerable reserves for even higher beam intensities. The detector has a modular<br />

design with a basic module size of (100x100) mm 2 . In Figure 2.4.85 (left panel) a BPD of<br />

(200x100) mm 2 active area made by two basic modules is shown together with the front-end<br />

electronics. The detector volume is filled with a gas of Ar + 10 % CO2. It contains 3 x 50 wires.<br />

Each wire with 2 mm pitch is directly connected to 3 integrated passive delay lines for x and y<br />

position measurements. The integrated electronics containing pre-amplifiers, amplifiers and zero<br />

crosser worked reliably. The digitalization of the fast signal was obtained by using a Flash ADC<br />

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