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@ARTICLE{Gasik:276724,
      author       = {Gasik, Piotr and Lautner, Lukas and Fabbietti, Laura and
                      Fribert, Henrik and Klemenz, Thomas and Mathis, Andreas and
                      Ulukutlu, Berkin and Waldmann, Tobias},
      title        = {{S}ystematic investigation of critical charge limits in
                      {T}hick {GEM}s},
      journal      = {Nuclear instruments $\&$ methods in physics research / A},
      volume       = {1047},
      issn         = {0167-5087},
      address      = {Amsterdam},
      publisher    = {North-Holland Publ. Co.},
      reportid     = {GSI-2023-00333, arXiv:2204.02853},
      pages        = {167730},
      year         = {2023},
      note         = {ccby4, grant number DFG FA 898/5-1},
      abstract     = {We present discharge probability studies performed with a
                      single Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) irradiated with
                      alpha particles in Ar-CO$_2$ and Ne-CO$_2$ mixtures. We
                      observe a clear dependency of the discharge stability on the
                      noble gas and quencher content pointing to lighter gases
                      being more stable against the development of streamer
                      discharges. A detailed comparison of the measurements with
                      Geant4 simulations allowed us to extract the critical charge
                      value leading to the formation of a spark in a THGEM hole,
                      which is found to be within the range of 3-7×10$^6$
                      electrons, depending on the gas mixture.Our experimental
                      findings are compared to previous GEM results. We show that
                      the discharge probability of THGEMs exceeds the one measured
                      with GEMs by orders of magnitude. This can be explained with
                      simple geometrical considerations, where primary ionization
                      is collected by a lower number of holes available in a THGEM
                      structure, reaching higher primary charge densities and thus
                      increasing the probability of a spark occurrence. However,
                      we show that the critical charge limits are similar for both
                      amplification structures.},
      cin          = {REDpub / CBM},
      ddc          = {530},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Ds200)RED-20210727publications /
                      I:(DE-Ds200)CBM-20080821OR102},
      pnm          = {622 - Detector Technologies and Systems (POF4-622)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-622},
      experiment   = {$EXP:(DE-Ds200)External_experiment-20200803$},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      UT           = {WOS:000918723200003},
      eprint       = {2204.02853},
      howpublished = {arXiv:2204.02853},
      archivePrefix = {arXiv},
      SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2204.02853;\%\%$},
      doi          = {10.1016/j.nima.2022.167730},
      url          = {https://repository.gsi.de/record/276724},
}