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Triple GEM performance in magnetic field
M. Alexeev1, A. Amoroso1,2, S. Bagnasco1, R. Baldini Ferroli3,4, I. Balossino3,5, G. Bencivenni4, M. Bertani4, D. Bettoni5, F. Bianchi1,2, A. Bortone1,2, A. Calcaterra4, M. Capodiferro4,11, V. Carassiti5, S. Cerioni4, J. Chai1,4,6, W. Cheng1, S. Chiozzi5, G. Cibinetto5, A. Cotta Ramusino5, G. Cotto1,2, F. Cossio1,6, M. Da Rocha Rolo1, F. De Mori1,2, M. Destefanis1,2, D. Domenici4, J. Dong3,4, F. Evangelisti5, R. Farinelli5,7, L. Fava1, G. Felici4, E. Fioravanti5, L. Gaido1, I. Garzia5,7, M. Gatta4, G. Giraudo1, S. Gramigna5,7, M. Greco1,2, L. Lavezzi1,3, C. Leng1, H. Li1, P. Li8, S. Lusso1, M. Maggiora1,2, R. Malaguti5, A. Mangoni9,10, S. Marcello1,2, M. Melchiorri5, G. Mezzadri5, G. Morello4, M. Mignone1, E. Pace3, S. Pacetti9,10, G. Papalino4, B. Passalacqua1,2, P. Patteri4, A. Pelosi4,11, M. Poli Lener4, A. Rivetti1, M. Savrié5,7, M. Scodeggio5,7, S. Sosio1, S. Spataro1,2, E. Tskhadadze4,12, S. Verma5,7, L. Yang1, B. Wang3, R.J. Weadon1 and J. Zhang3
Performance of triple GEM prototypes in strong magnetic field has been evaluated by means of a muon beam at the H4 line of the SPS test area at CERN. Data have been reconstructed and analyzed offline with two reconstruction methods: the charge centroid and the micro-Time-Projection-Chamber exploiting the charge and the time measurement respectively. Depending on the combination of the particle incident angle and magnetic filed, there's always one of the two algorithms achieving a spatial resolution of 100–120 μm.
