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The development and the performance of novel floating strip Micromegas are discussed in this thesis.
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MICRO-MEsh GAS detector.
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A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS.
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Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Full Width at Half Maximum.
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COmmon Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy.
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Tokai-to-Kamioka.
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CERN Axion Solar Telescope.
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Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon Time-projection-chamber.
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Compact Muon Solenoid.
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LHC beauty.
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A Large Ion Collider Experiment.
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TOTal Elastic and diffractive cross section Measurement.
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LHC forward.
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Monopole and Exotics Detector At the LHC.
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Gaseous Electron Multipliers.
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Bortfeldt, J. (2015). Introduction. In: The Floating Strip Micromegas Detector. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18893-5_1
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