THE ELECTROSTATIC-FIELD IN MICROSTRIP CHAMBERS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON DETECTOR PERFORMANCE

被引:39
作者
FLORENT, JJ
GAUDAEN, J
ROPELEWSKI, L
SAULI, F
机构
[1] CERN, Geneva
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10.1016/0168-9002(93)90927-A
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
This paper describes the results of detailed field calculations for microstrip gas chambers. A program was written using the multigrid technique, which allows to do very fast electrical field calculations for two-dimensional geometries. Typical execution times for a problem on a grid with 154000 nodes are 125 s on a SUN IPC and 14 s on the CERN IBM 3090. The speed of this program makes it practical to do field calculations for a variety of geometries, materials and operating conditions. This has allowed us to pin a better understanding of important phenomena for the operation of gas microstrip chambers, such as charging of the dielectric support.
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