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@ARTICLE{Fribert:363791,
      author       = {Fribert, H. and Fabbietti, L. and Gasik, Piotr and
                      Ulukutlu, B.},
      title        = {{I}mpact of trace amounts of water on the stability of
                      {M}icro-{P}attern {G}aseous {D}etectors measured in
                      ${A}r-{CO}_{2}$ (90-10)},
      journal      = {Nuclear instruments $\&$ methods in physics research /
                      Section A},
      volume       = {1082},
      issn         = {0167-5087},
      address      = {[Amsterdam]},
      publisher    = {Elsevier},
      reportid     = {GSI-2026-00001, arXiv:2503.03012},
      pages        = {170912},
      year         = {2026},
      note         = {This work was supported by the Deutsche
                      Forschungsgemeinschaft - Sachbeihilfe [grant number DFG FA
                      898/5-1]. This is an open access article under the CC BY
                      license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
      abstract     = {In this study, we investigate the influence of humidity on
                      the performance of various non-resistive Micro Pattern
                      Gaseous Detectors, such as GEM, Thick-GEM, and Micromegas,
                      operated with Ar-CO2 (90-10) gas mixture. The water content
                      is introduced in a range of 0-5000 ppmV. It is observed that
                      the presence of increased humidity does not significantly
                      degrade any of the studied performance criteria. On the
                      contrary, our measurements suggest an improvement in
                      discharge stability with increasing humidity levels at the
                      highest gains and fields. No significant difference is
                      observed at the lower gains, indicating that humidity helps
                      to reduce the rate of spurious discharges related to
                      electrode defects or charging-up of the insulating layers.
                      We conclude that adding a small amount of water to the gas
                      mixture may be beneficial for the stable operation of an
                      MPGD.},
      cin          = {CBM / FRC},
      ddc          = {530},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Ds200)CBM-20080821OR102 /
                      I:(DE-Ds200)FRC-20160831OR362},
      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},
      eprint       = {2503.03012},
      howpublished = {arXiv:2503.03012},
      archivePrefix = {arXiv},
      SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2503.03012;\%\%$},
      UT           = {WOS:001583289800002},
      doi          = {10.1016/j.nima.2025.170912},
      url          = {https://repository.gsi.de/record/363791},
}