Environmental Dependence of the Performance of Resistive Plate Chambers

Burak Bilki; John Butler; Ed May; Georgios Mavromanolakis; Edwin Norbeck; Jose Repond; David Underwood; Lei Xia; Qingmin Zhang

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/5/02/P02007

Environmental Dependence of the Performance of Resistive Plate Chambers

Instrumentation and Detectors 2010-05-07 v1

Authors: Burak Bilki , John Butler , Ed May , Georgios Mavromanolakis , Edwin Norbeck , Jose Repond , David Underwood , Lei Xia , Qingmin Zhang

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Abstract

This paper reports on the performance of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as function of the gas flow rate through the chambers and of environmental conditions, such as atmospheric pressure, ambient temperature and air humidity. The chambers are read out by pads with an area of 1 x 1 cm2 and a 1-bit resolution per pad. The performance measures include the noise rate as well as the detection efficiency and pad multiplicity for cosmic rays. The measurements extended over a period of almost one year and are sensitive to possible long-term aging effects.

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Resistive Plate Chambers environmental dependence gas flow rate detection efficiency cosmic rays

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@article{arxiv.0911.1351,
  title  = {Environmental Dependence of the Performance of Resistive Plate Chambers},
  author = {Burak Bilki and John Butler and Ed May and Georgios Mavromanolakis and Edwin Norbeck and Jose Repond and David Underwood and Lei Xia and Qingmin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.1351},
  year   = {2010}
}

Environmental Dependence of the Performance of Resistive Plate Chambers

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