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In this R&D, an innovative method for producing thin high-pressure laminate (HPL) electrodes for resistive plate chambers (RPC) for future high-energy experiments is introduced. Instead of using thick phenolic HPL (2-mm thick Bakelite),…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-05 Kyong Sei Lee , Giuseppe Iaselli , Youngmin Jo , Minho Kang , Tae Jeong Kim , Dayron Ramos Lopez , Gabriella Pugliese

We report on studies of fast triggering and high-precision tracking using Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). Two beam tests were carried out with the 180 GeV muon beam at CERN using RPCs with gas gaps of 1.00 or 1.15 mm and equipped with…

The standard gas mixture for the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC), composed of C2H2F4/i-C4H10/SF6, allows the detector operation in avalanche mode, as required by the high-luminosity collider experiments. The gas density, the low current and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-10 Giorgia Proto

This communication describes test beam results, focusing on detection efficiency and timing precision, of common float glass timing Resistive Plate Chambers (tRPCs) exposed to a $2.7$~GeV proton beam and operated at above ambient…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-23 A. Blanco , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , J. Saraiva

We report on the behaviour of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) developed for muon detection in ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) experiments. The RPCs were developed for the MARTA project and were tested on field conditions. These RPCs…

The reliability of large-area Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) operated under High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) conditions is governed by the long-term stability and radiation tolerance of screen-printed graphite/phenoxy…

Resistive plate chambers (RPC) lined with $^{10}B_{4}$C neutron converters is a promising cost effective technology for position-sensitive thermal neutron detection capable to outperform $^{3}$He-based detectors in terms of spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 L. M. S. Margato , A. Morozov , A. Blanco , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , K. Zeitelhack , R. Hall-Wilton , C. Höglund , L. Robinson , S. Schmidt , P. Svensson

The Resistive Plate Chamber is a widely used detector in high energy physics. The operating potential of this chamber is determined by the optimisation of the efficiency and noise rate of the device. This optimisation is based on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-05 S. Pethuraj , G. Majumder , K. C. Ravindran , B. Satyanarayana , Umesh L

An optimized design of a neutron detector based on timing RPCs (Resistive Plate Chambers) with boron-10 neutron converters is presented. The detector is composed of a stack of ten double gap RPCs with aluminium cathode plates coated on both…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-03 L. M. S. Margato , G. Canezin , A. Morozov , A. Blanco , J. Saraiva , L. Lopes , P. Fonte

The Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are employed in the CMS experiment at the LHC as dedicated trigger system both in the barrel and in the endcap. This note presents results of the RPC detector uniformity and stability during the 2011 data…

The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is planning to build a magnetized iron calorimeter detector (ICAL) in which Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) will be the active detector elements. A study of the performance of RPCs, made using…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Sadiq , K. Raveendrababu , P. K. Behera

Usage of electrodes made of glass with low bulk resistivity seems to be a promising way to adapt the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) to the high-rate environment of the upcoming CBM experiment. A pilot four-gap RPC sample with electrodes…

The low cost and high resolution gas-based Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) opens a new possibility to find an efficient alternative detector for Time of Flight (TOF) based Positron Emission Tomography, where the sensitivity of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-30 A. Banerjee , S. Chattopadhyay

The India-based Neutrino Observatory Project (INO) is a proposed underground high energy physics experiment at Theni, India to study the neutrino oscillation parameters using atmospheric neutrinos. The 50 kton magnetised INO-ICAL detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-19 Suryanarayan Mondal , V. M. Datar , Gobinda Majumder , N. K. Mondal , K. C. Ravindran , B. Satyanarayana

Resistive gaseous detectors can be broadly defined as those operated in conditions where virtually no field lines exist that connect any two metallic electrodes sitting at different potential. This condition can be operationally recognized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 Diego Gonzalez-Diaz , Archana Sharma

A new design of highly granular hadronic calorimeter using Glass Resistive Plate Chambers (GRPCs) with embedded electronics has been proposed for the future International Linear Collider (ILC) experiments. It features a 2-bit threshold…

The requirement of high rate capability for operation at LHC, led 20 years ago to the achievement of Resistive Plate Chambers operated in avalanche mode, thanks to the introduction of new gas mixtures and to the development of the Front-End…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 A. Paoloni , A. Mengucci , M. Spinetti , M. Ventura , L. Votano

The proposed magnetised Iron CALorimeter detector (ICAL) to be built in the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) laboratory aims to detect atmospheric muon neutrinos. In order to achieve improved physics results, the constituent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-03 R. Kanishka , Vipin Bhatnagar , D. Indumathi

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs), used for the Muon Spectrometer of the ALICE experiment at CERN LHC, are currently operated in maxi-avalanche mode with a low threshold value and without amplification in the front-end electronics. RPC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 Antonio Bianchi

A new prototype of large area Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) with long readout strips was built. This Long-strip Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (LMRPC) is double stacked and has ten 250 $\mu$m-thick gas gaps. Signals are read…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-20 Yongjie sun , Cheng Li , Zebo Tang , Lailin Xu , Tianxiang Chen , Ming Shao