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Principles of operation, construction and first test results of a Dielectric Resistive Plate Chamber (DRPC) are described. The detector has shown stability of operation in the avalanche mode of gas amplfication within a wide range of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Akindinov , V. Golovin , A. Martemiyanov , V. Petrov , A. Smirnitskiy , K. Voloshin

A novel Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) was designed with Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) electrodes and performance studies were carried out for 384$\,\mathrm{\mu m}$ gap configuration with a $2\,\mathrm{cm}\times2\,\mathrm{cm}$ prototype. The use…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-25 Kei Ieki , Weiyuan Li , Atsuhiko Ochi , Rina Onda , Wataru Ootani , Atsushi Oya , Masato Takahashi , Kensuke Yamamoto

Optimization of spacer and gas distribution inside glass resistive plate chamber (RPC) is reported. Simulation studies demonstrate improvements on the gas flow velocity homogeneity and lower vorticity inside the gas chamber. The optimized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-05 L. Mao , F. Lagarde , J. Guo , X. Wang , J. Li , Q. Shen , J. Zhu , H. Yang

During Phase-2 of the LHC, known as the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the accelerator will increase its instantaneous luminosity to 5 $\times$ 10$^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, delivering an integrated luminosity of 3000 fb$^{-1}$ over 10 years…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-24 Priyanka Kumari

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) featuring 1 mm gas volumes combined with high-pressure phenolic laminate (HPL) electrodes provide excellent timing resolution down to a few hundred picoseconds, along with spatial resolution on the order of a…

The Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) provide excellent timing as well as position resolutions at relatively low cost. Therefore, they can be used in medical imaging applications such as PET where precise timing is a crucial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-23 M. Nizam , B. Satyanarayana , R. R. Shinde , G. Majumder

To achieve high-resolution muography of compact targets in scenarios with complex logistical constraints, we are developing a portable muon detector system utilizing glass Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). Although RPCs are well understood…

The limitation of the detection rate of standard bakelite resistive plate chambers (RPC) used as muon detectors in the LHC experiments has prevented the use of such detectors in the high rate regions in both CMS and ATLAS detectors. One…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 Y. Haddad , G. Grenier , I. Laktineh , N. Lumb , S. Cauwenbergh

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are essential active media of large-scale experiments as part of the muon systems and (semi-)digital hadron calorimeters. Among the several outstanding issues associated with the RPCs, the loss of efficiency…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 Mehmet Tosun , Burak Bilki , Kutlu Kagan Sahbaz

The muon spectrometer of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is equipped with a redundant system made of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) and Drift Tube (DT) chambers in the barrel, RPC and Cathode…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-22 M. I. Pedraza-Morales , M. A. Shaha , M. Shopova

CMS experiment will use Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as dedicated muon trigger detectors. The first 24 RPCs for the barrel muon system of the CMS experiment have been assembled and tested. A brief description of the cosmic muon telescope…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-19 Borislav Pavlov

A muon telescope equipped with four Resistive Plate Chambers of 2 m$^{2}$ per plane was tested with the muon scattering tomography technique. The telescope was operated during several hours with high atomic number materials located at its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-22 João Saraiva , Carlos Alemparte , Daniel Belver , Alberto Blanco , Juan Callón , Jose Collazo , Alfredo Iglesias , Luís Lopes

The ATLAS Muon Spectrometer is undergoing a major upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), including the addition of three new thin-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) layers in the inner barrel region. These RPCs have 1 mm gas gaps…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-10 F. Fallavollita , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , P. Maly , G. Proto , D. Soyk , E. Voevodina , J. Zimmermann

A Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) equipped with heaters to improve the counting rate capability was designed for the BM@N experiment in Dubna. The measurements were performed using a muon beam at IHEP U-70 accelerator in Protvino.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 N. A. Kuzmin , E. A. Ladygin , V. P. Ladygin , Yu. P. Petukhov , S. Ya. Sychkov , A. A. Semak , M. N. Ukhanov , E. A. Usenko

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) exhibit a significant loss of efficiency for the detection of particles, when subjected to high particle fluxes. This rate limitation is related to the usually high resistivity of the resistive plates used in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-08 M. Affatigato , U. Akgun , B. Bilki , F. Corriveau , B. Freund , N. Johnson , C. Neubueser , Y. Onel , J. Repond , L. Xia

We report on a systematic study of double-gap and four-gap phenolic resistive plate chambers (RPCs) for future high-{\eta} RPC triggers in the CMS. In the present study, we constructed real-sized double-gap and four-gap RPCs with gap…

The phase-out of hydro-fluorocarbons, owing to their high Global Warming Power, affecting the main gas used in Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs), tetrafluoroethane C$_2$H$_2$F$_4$, has increased operational difficulties on existing systems…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-01 A. Blanco , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , M. Pimenta

An experimental setup consisting of 12 layers of glass Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) of size 2\,m\,$\times$\,2\,m has been built at IICHEP-Madurai (\ang{9;56;14.5}\,N \ang{78;00;47.9}\,E, on the surface) to study the long term performance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-14 Suryanarayan Mondal , V. M. Datar , Gobinda Majumder , N. K. Mondal , S. Pethuraj , K. C. Ravindran , B. Satyanarayana

The muon spectrometer of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is equipped with a redundant system made of Resistive Plate Chambers and Drift Tube in barrel and RPC and Cathode Strip Chamber in endcap…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 G. Pugliese

The Resistive Plate Chambers detector system at the CMS experiment at the LHC provides robustness and redundancy to the muon trigger. A total of 1056 double-gap chambers cover the pseudo-rapidity region < 1.6. The main detector parameters…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-31 Mehar Ali Shah