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A large area Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) with a total active surface of 160x10 cm2 was built and tested. The surface was segmented in two 5 cm wide strips readout on both ends with custom, very high frequency, front end electronics. A…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Blanco , R. Ferreira-Marques , Ch. Finck , P. Fonte , A. Gobbi , A. Policarpo , M. Rozas

The Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors offer excellent spatial and temporal resolution in harsh radiation environments of high-luminosity colliders. In this work, an attempt has been made to establish an algorithm for estimating the time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-11 Purba Bhattacharya , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Sudeb Bhattacharya

A new kind of Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) has been built for the large-area Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) for the STAR experiment at RHIC. These long read-out strip MRPCs (LMRPCs) have an active area of 87.0 x 17.0 cm2 and ten…

Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) with multi-strip readout are considered to be the optimal detector candidate for the Time-of-Flight (ToF) wall in the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment. In the R&D phase MRPCs with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-23 I. Deppner , N. Herrmann , J. Frühauf , M. Kiš , P. Lyu , P. -A. Loizeau , L. Shi , C. Simon , Y. Wang , B. Xie

Photosensitive gaseous detectors with a simple photoelectron multiplication mechanism of resistive plate chambers (RPCs) are expected to have both a large photocoverage and an excellent time resolution and to be low-cost. To demonstrate the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-24 K. Matsuoka , R. Okubo , Y. Adachi

The Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) are low-cost charged-particle detectors with good timing resolution and potentially good spatial resolution. Using RPC as gamma detector provides an opportunity for application in positron emission…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-20 Zhou Weizheng , Shao Ming , Li Cheng , Chen Hongfang , Sun Yongjie , Chen Tianxiang

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

The multi-gap resistive plate chambers (MRPCs) will be used as the Time-of-Flight (ToF) system in the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID). The time resolution required by the experiment for the MRPC system is 20 ps in order to make a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-11 Fuyue Wang , Dong Han , Yi Wang

The applications of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) have recently been extended by the development of counters with time resolution below 100 ps sigma for minimum ionising particles. Applications to HEP experiments have already taken place…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Blanco , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , A. Mangiarotti , R. Ferreira-Marques , A. Policarpo

To meet the need for a high counting rate and high time resolution in future high-energy physics experiments, a prototype of a gas photodetector with an RPC structure was developed. Garfield++ simulated the detector's performance, and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-30 Yiding Zhao , D. Hu , M. Shao , Y. Zhou , S. Lv , Xiangqi Tian , Anqi Wang , Xueshen Lin , Hao Pang , Y. Suna

A prototype of Multi-Wire Proportional Chambers (MWPC) has been fabricated for the study of its various characteristics. The detector contains gold-coated tungsten wires (20 $\mu m$ diameter) on the anode frame, with a pitch of 2.8 mm. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-06 Rajendra Nath Patra , R. N. Singaraju , S. Biswas , T. K. Nayak , Y. P. Viyogi

In the CBM (Compressed Baryonic Matter) experiment constructed at the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (Fair) at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, MRPC(Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber) is adopted to construct the large TOF…

In order to further enhance the particle identification capability of the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII), it is proposed to upgrade the current end-cap time-of-flight (eTOF) detector with multi-gap resistive plate chamber (MRPC). The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-16 S. Yang , Y. J. Sun , C. Li , Y. K. Heng , S. Qian , H. F. Chen , T. X. Chen , H. L. Dai , H. H. Fan , S. B. Liu , S. D. Liu , X. S. Jiang , M. Shao , Z. B. Tang , H. Zhang , Z. G. Zhao

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

The measurement of the $K^{\pm}$ production in the Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) can provide further knowledge about the structure of nucleon, and thus it is purposed in the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device(SoLID) at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-24 Fuyue Wang , Dong Han , Yi Wang , Yancheng Yu , Pengfei Lyu , Baohong Guo

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…

In this work we describe some recent results concerning the application of Resistive Plate Chambers operated in avalanche mode at atmospheric pressure for high-resolution time-of-flight measurements. A combination of multiple, mechanically…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Fonte , V. Peskov

Time of flight of a minimum ionizing particle along a fixed base has been measured with a 100 ps accuracy by means of a Dielectric Resistive Plate Chamber (DRPC) with 4 x 0.3 mm gas gaps. DRPC timing characteristics have been studied with…

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

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…

A new readout technique was developed with the primary aim of keeping the number of channels in the front-end electronics as low as possible when scaling up the sensitive area of a Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC). The readout method here…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-16 João Pedro de Carvalho Saraiva , Alberto Blanco Castro