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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

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

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

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…

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 Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is widely used in experiments of high energy physics as trigger detector as its good time resolution and high efficiency. In the traditional layout of RPC, the graphite layers are indispensable parts. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-31 Quanyin Li , Xiangyu Xie , Zhengwei Xue , Jiajin Ge , Yongjie Sun

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

Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is a well-known gaseous detector in the field of High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments for its good tracking capability, high efficiency, good time resolution, and low cost of fabrication. The main issue in RPC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-25 A. Sen , S. Chatterjee , S. Das , S. Biswas

The Particle Flow Analysis approach retained for the future ILC detectors requires high granularity and compact particle energy deposition. A Glass Resistive Plate Chamber based Semi-Digital calorimeter can offer both at a low price for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Vincent Boudry

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

This paper reports on the performance of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as function of the gas flow rate through the chambers and of environmental conditions, such as atmospheric pressure, ambient temperature and air humidity. The chambers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-07 Burak Bilki , John Butler , Ed May , Georgios Mavromanolakis , Edwin Norbeck , Jose Repond , David Underwood , Lei Xia , Qingmin Zhang

A new type of resistive plate chamber (RPC) is under development using thin-film resistive electrodes based on diamond-like carbon (DLC). Planned to be put on the path of high-intensity low-momentum muon beam of the MEG II experiment, this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Atsushi Oya , Kei Ieki , Atsuhiko Ochi , Rina Onda , Wataru Ootani , Kensuke Yamamoto

The mitigation of human-induced climate change is of crucial importance for the sustainability of humankind. For this aim the RPC community has exerted considerable effort over the last decade to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Lopes P. Assis , A. Blanco , P. Fonte , M. Pimenta

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

Large Resistive Plate Chamber systems have their roots in High Energy Physics experiments at the European Organization for Nuclear Research: ATLAS, CMS and ALICE, where hundreds of square meters of both trigger and timing RPCs have been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-30 João Saraiva , Carlos Alemparte , Daniel Belver , Alberto Blanco , Juan Callón , Jose Collazo , Alfredo Iglesias , Luís Lopes

Muography is finding applications in various domains such as volcanology, archaeology, civil engineering, industry, mining, and nuclear waste surveys. To simplify transportation and installation in remote locations after laboratory testing,…

The time resolution for several single gap (2 mm) prototype Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) made of high resistive (bulk resistivity ~ 10^10 - 10^12 ohm cm), 2 mm thick matt finished bakelite paper laminates with silicone coating on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Biswas , S. Bhattacharya , S. Bose , S. Chattopadhyay , S. Saha , Y. P. Viyogi

This paper reports on detailed measurements of the performance of Resistive Plate Chambers in a proton beam with variable intensity. Short term effects, such as dead time, are studied using consecutive events. On larger time scales, for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-06-25 B. Bilki , J. Butler , E. May , G. Mavromanolakis , E. Norbeck , J. Repond , D. Underwood , L. Xia , Q. Zhang

As part of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment Phase-II upgrade program, new Resistive Plate Chambers will be installed in the forward region. High background conditions are expected in this region during the high-luminosity phase of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-02 Sabino Meola

A prototype of a single-gap glass Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is constructed by the authors. To find the considerations required for better operation of the detector's gas system, we have simulated the flow of the Ar gas through the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-30 Yousef Pezeshkian , Amir Kiyoumarsioskouei , Majid Ahmadpouri , Ghasem Ghorbani
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