The Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are going to be used as the active detectors in the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)-Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) experiment for the detection and study of atmospheric neutrinos. In this paper, an extensive study of structural and electrical properties for different kind of bakelite RPC electrodes is presented. RPCs fabricated from these electrodes are tested for their detector efficiency and noise rate. The study concludes with the variation of efficiency, leakage current and counting rate over the period of operation with different gas compositions and operational conditions like temperature and relative humidity.
@article{arxiv.1409.5522,
title = {Study of RPC bakelite electrodes and detector performance for INO-ICAL},
author = {Ashok Kumar and Ankit Gaur and Md. Hasbuddin and Praveen Kumar and Purnendu Kumar and Daljeet Kaur and Swati Mishra and Md. Naimuddin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5522},
year = {2015}
}
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8 pages, 8 Figures, matches version to appear in JINST