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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

The Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) are gas ionization detectors with multiple gas sub-gaps made of resistive electrodes. The high voltage (HV) is applied on the outer surfaces of outermost resistive plates only, while the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 Moon Moon Devi , Naba K. Mondal , B. Satyanarayana , R. R. Shinde

A new particle detector with sub-nanosecond time resolution capable of working in high-rate environment (rate capability of the order of $MHz/ cm^2$) is under developmnet. Semiconductive electrodes with resistivity $\rho$ up to $10^8…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 A. Rocchi , R. Cardarelli , G. Aielli , E. Alunno Camelia , S. Bruno , A. Caltabiano , P. Camarri , A. Di Ciaccio , B. Liberti , L. Massa , L. Pizzimento

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

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

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

Thin-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) with a 1 mm gap size are introduced in the Phase-II ATLAS upgrade. Smaller avalanche charge due to the reduced gap size raises concerns for signal integrity. This work focuses on the RPC signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-11 Zirui Liu , Xiangyu Xie , Pingxin Zhang , Chunhao Tian , Yongjie Sun

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

Operation and performance of the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) mostly depend on the quality and characteristics of the electrode materials. The India-based Neutrino Observatory collaboration has chosen glass RPCs as the active detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 K. Raveendrababu , P. K. Behera , B. Satyanarayana , Jafar Sadiq

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

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Banerjee , A. Roy , S. Biswas , S. Chattopadhyay , G. Das , S. Pal

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…

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

Performances of several single gap (gas gap 2 mm) prototype Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) made of high resistive ({\rho} \sim 1010 - 1012 {\Omega} cm) bakelite, commercially available in India have been studied in recent times. To make the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Biswas , Purba Bhattacharya , S. Bhattacharya , S. Bose , S. Chattopadhyay , N. Majumdar , S. Mukhopadhyay , S. Saha , Y. P. Viyogi

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

Neutrinos, elusive and abundant, interact weakly with matter, making detection challenging. This thesis explores neutrino physics, focusing on mass hierarchy and oscillations, with emphasis on India's upcoming INO facility. The Iron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-31 Tanay Dey

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are widely used as tracking detectors in many high-energy physics experiments. It has been observed that low-resistive bakelite RPC prototypes frequently exhibit a secondary hit component, appearing as a long…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-14 Souvik Chattopadhay , Zubayer Ahammed

The upgrade of the Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) detector, in order to increase the detector rate capability and to be able to work efficiently in high rate environment, consists in the reduction of the operating voltage along with the…

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…

The CMS Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) system has been certified for 10 years of LHC operation. In the next years, during the High luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) phase, the LHC instantaneous luminosity will increase to a factor five more than the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-31 R. Aly