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The Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams (R$^3$B) collaboration of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany, has constructed an experimental setup to perform fundamental studies of nuclear matter,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 M. Xarepe , T. Aumann , A. Blanco , A. Corsi , D. Galaviz , H. Johansson , S. Linev , B. Löher , L. Lopes , J. Michel , V. Panin , D. Rossi , J. Saraiva , H. Törnqvist , M. Traxler

The high pseudorapidity ($\eta$) region of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) muon system is covered by Cathode Strip Chambers only and lacks redundant coverage despite the fact that it is a challenging region for muons in terms of backgrounds…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 E. Voevodina , I. Crotty

The use of conventional imaging techniques becomes problematic when faced with challenging logistics and confined environments. In particular, such scenarios are not unusual in the field of archaeological and mining explorations as well as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-03 S. Basnet , E. Cortina Gil , P. Demin , R. M. I. D. Gamage , A. Giammanco , R. Karnam , M. Moussawi , A. Samalan , M. Tytgat

The Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) is a gaseous detector; the performance depends very much on the gas mixture as well as the design. MRPCs are used as a timing device in several collider experiments and cosmic ray experiments…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-27 Yongwook Baek , Dowon Kim , M. C. S. Williams

The CMS muon system includes in both the barrel and endcap region Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC). They mainly serve as trigger detectors and also improve the reconstruction of muon parameters. Over the years, the instantaneous luminosity of…

We present recent results of an extensive aging test, performed at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility on two single--gap RPC prototypes, developed for the LHCb Muon System. With a method based on a model describing the behaviour of an RPC…

The time resolution of Multigap Resistive Plate Counters (MRPCs) to $511$ keV gamma rays has been investigated using a $^{22}$Na source and four detectors. The MRPCs time resolution has been derived from the Time-of-Flight information,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 G. Belli , M. Gabusi , G. Musitelli , R. Nardò , S. P. Ratti , A. Tamborini , P. Vitulo

The contribution of Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) to muon reconstruction in CMS has been studied on a sample of muons collected in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC in 2011. Muon reconstruction is performed using the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Min Suk Kim

The Multipurpose Detector (MPD) \cite{cite1.MPD_CDR} is designed to study of hot and dense baryonic matter in collisions of heavy ions over the atomic mass range 1--197 at the centre of mass energy up to $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$ = 11 GeV (for…

Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber(MRPC) is a widely used timing detector with a typical time resolution of about 60 ps. This makes MRPC an optimal choice for the time of flight(ToF) system in many large physics experiments. The prior work…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Fuyue Wang , Dong Han , Yi Wang , Yancheng Yu , Baohong Guo , Yuanjing Li

The Muon Upgrade Phase II of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) aims to guarantee the optimal conditions of the present system and extend the $\eta$ coverage to ensure a reliable system for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 M. I. Pedraza-Morales

Single gap (gas gap 2 mm) bakelite Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) modules of various sizes from 10 cm \times 10 cm to 1 m \times 1 m have been fabricated, characterized and optimized for efficiency and time resolution. Thin layers of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 K. K. Meghna , A. Banerjee , S. Biswas , S. Bhattacharya , S. Bose , S. Chattopadhyay , G. Das , C. Marick , S. Saha , Y. P. Viyogi

The CMS experiment, located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN, has a redundant muon system composed by three different gaseous detector technologies: Cathode Strip Chambers (in the forward regions), Drift Tubes (in the central…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 M. A. Shah , R. Hadjiska

A novel design of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs), using only a single resistive plate, is being proposed. Based on this design, two large size prototype chambers were constructed and were tested with cosmic rays and in particle beams. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-20 B. Bilki , F. Corriveau , B. Freund , C. Neubüser , Y. Onel , J. Repond , J. Schlereth , L. Xia

The ALICE Muon IDentifier is composed of 72 single-gap bakelite Resistive Plate Chambers, which have been operational since 2009 in maxi-avalanche mode (discrimination threshold:7 mV without amplification) with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-21 Alessandro Ferretti

This paper reports the latest developmental efforts for a position-sensitive glass-based Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) and a multi-channel Data AcQuisition (DAQ) system tailored for muon tracking in muography applications. The designed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-26 V. Kumar , S. Basnet , E. Cortina Gil , P. Demin , R. M. I. D. Gamage , A. Giammanco , R. Karnam , M. Moussawi , A. Samalan , M. Tytgat , A. Youssef

The India based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a mega science project of India, which is going to use near about 30, 000 Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) as active detector elements for the study of atmospheric neutrino oscillations. Each RPC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 M. K. Singh , A. Kumar , N. Marimuthu , V. Singh , V. S. Subrahmanyam

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) have traditionally operated with high Global Warming Potential (GWP) gas mixtures, adding to the environmental footprint of large-scale physics experiments. In response, efforts are underway to explore…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-23 Aashaq Shah , Thomas Adolphus , Yingchang Zhang , Oleg Brandt

The detailed simulation of the Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) provides the performance characteristics of MRPCs with different numbers of gas gaps and gap thicknesses. This helps in optimizing the structure of MRPCs under…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-31 J. Liu , Z. Chen , Y. Wang , B. Guo , D. Han , Y. Li

New developments in Thin Gap Chambers (TGC) detectors to provide fast trigger and high precision muon tracking under sLHC conditions are presented. The modified detectors are shown to stand a high total irradiation dose equivalent to 6…