Towards a large-area RPWELL detector: design optimization and performance

D. Zavazieva; L. Moleri; A. Jash; G. Sela; F. de Vito-Halevy; S. Bressler

Towards a large-area RPWELL detector: design optimization and performance

Instrumentation and Detectors 2023-07-19 v2

Authors: D. Zavazieva , L. Moleri , A. Jash , G. Sela , F. de Vito-Halevy , S. Bressler

Abstract

We present a new design and assembly procedure of a large-area gas-avalanche Resistive-Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector. A $50\times50 ~\mathrm{cm^2}$ prototype was tested in $\mathrm{80 ~GeV/c}$ muon beam at CERN-SPS, presenting improved performances compared to previous ones: MIP detection efficiency over 96\% with 3\% uniformity across the entire detector area, a charge gain of $\mathrm{\approx{7.5 \times 10^3}}$ with a uniformity of 22\%, and discharge probability below $\mathrm{10^{-6}}$ with a few single hotspots attributed to production imperfections. These results pave the way towards further up-scaling detectors of this kind.

Keywords

gaseous detectors particle detector

Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.02047,
  title  = {Towards a large-area RPWELL detector: design optimization and performance},
  author = {D. Zavazieva and L. Moleri and A. Jash and G. Sela and F. de Vito-Halevy and S. Bressler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02047},
  year   = {2023}
}

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