Micromesh for Micromegas chamber


Micromesh kapton pillars (height=50 micron and pitch= 2mm). These pillars support the micromesh's weight and keeps it from touching the anode plane.


The micromegas detector is a different micro-patterned device in that it creats a parallel electric field in a tiny gas volume where avalanche multiplication takes place. Placing the thin mesh this close was not possible until the lithography technique advanced but now it is possible to build a very robust detector
  • Poster for the DOE visit in August, 2001 describing Micromegas and GEM
  • Micromegas poster(in French)