Beam Test with a GridGEM TPC Prototype Module
  The International Large Detector (ILD) --a detector concept for the International Linear Collider (ILC)-- foresees a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) as its main tracking detector. Currently, the R&D efforts for such a TPC focus on studies using a large prototype that can accommodate up to seven read-out modules which are comparable to the ones that would be used in the final ILD TPC. The DESY TPC group has developed such a module using GEMs for the gas amplification, which are mounted on thin ceramic frames. The module design and first results of a test beam campaign are presented. 
Ralf Diener (1), Ties Behnke (1), Stefano Caiazza (1), Isa Heinze (1),   Volker Prahl (1), Christoph Rosemann (1), Oliver Sc...
physics.ins-det