LEETECH facility as a flexible source of low energy electrons

Abstract

A new versatile facility LEETECH for detector R&D, tests and calibration is designed and constructed. It uses electrons produced by the photoinjector PHIL at LAL, Orsay and provides a powerful tool for wide range R&D studies of different detector concepts delivering "mono-chromatic" samples of low energy electrons with adjustable energy and intensity. Among other innovative instrumentation techniques, LEETECH will be used for testing various gaseous tracking detectors and studying new Micromegas/InGrid concept which has very promising characteristics of spatial resolution and can be a good candidate for particle tracking and identification. In this paper the importance and expected characteristics of such facility based on detailed simulation studies are addressed.

Study of low multiplicity electron source LEETECH with diamond detector

“…Several aluminum attenuators 100 µm to 6 mm thick have been manufactured. A detailed study of LEETECH parameters, such as the role of the attenuator thickness, the magnetic field and the optimization of the vacuum chamber shielding is presented in [1].…”

“…LEETECH (Low Energy Electron TECHnique) is a versatile source of electrons with adjustable sample intensity and energy [1]. LEETECH is based on the beam from the PHIL photoinjector at LAL [2].…”