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A dedicated front-end electronics has been developed for the trigger chambers of the ALICE muon spectrometer which will work at the future LHC at CERN. These trigger chambers are based on RPCs (Resistive Plate Chambers) working in streamer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Rosnet , L. Royer , the Alice Collaboration

In the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) program, during the next years, the instantaneous luminosity will increase up to 5 $\times$ 10$^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ which means a factor five higher than the nominal LHC. In that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-30 R. Aly

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…

Liquid xenon time projection chambers offer a homogeneous detection medium with excellent intrinsic energy resolution, fast scintillation, and true three-dimensional position sensitivity, making them an attractive alternative to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-30 B. Li , Y. Ma , K. Ni

This paper presents a novel pixel chip readout scheme: the Region-of-Interest Readout Circuit (ROIRC), which is designed for large area, large array pixel chips and Gas Pixel Detector (GPD). This design employs a sentinel pixel detection…

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to measure coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering of reactor anti-neutrinos using cryogenic calorimeters. Operating at an overburden of 3 m.w.e., muon-induced backgrounds are expected to be one of the…

Muon tomography is a non-destructive imaging technique that uses cosmic-ray muons to probe dense materials. Bar scintillator and scintillating fiber detectors equipped with one-dimensional SiPM arrays offer compact, high-resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-06 Chenghan Lv , Kun Hu , Huiling Li , Hui Liang , Cong Liu , Hongbo Wang , Zibing Wu , Weiwei Xu

This paper has the purpose to study the rate capability of the Resistive Plate Chamber, RPC, starting from the basic physics of this detector. The effect of different working parameters determining the rate capability is analysed in detail,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 G. Aielli , P. Camarri , R. Cardarelli , A. Di Ciaccio , L. Di Stante , R. Iuppa , B. Liberti , L. Paolozzi , E. Pastori , R. Santonico , M. Toppi

Time projection chambers (TPCs) have found a wide range of applications in particle physics, nuclear physics, and homeland security. For TPCs with high-resolution readout, the readout electronics often dominate the price of the final…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-17 S. J. Ross , M. T. Hedges , I. Jaegle , M. D. Rosen , I. S. Seong , T. N. Thorpe , S. E. Vahsen , J. Yamaoka

An ASIC named CATIROC (Charge And Time Integrated Read Out Chip) has been developed for the next-generation neutrino experiments using a large number of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Each CATIROC provides the time and the charge…

Time-Of-Flight (TOF) is a noble technique that is used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging worldwide. The scintillator based imaging system that is being used around the world for TOF-PET is very expensive. Multi-gap Resistive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-02 Rajesh Ganai , Shaifali Mehta , Mehulkumar Shiroya , Mitali Mondal , Zubayer Ahammed , Subhasis Chattopadhyay

India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a multi-institutional facility, planned to be built up in South India. The INO facility will host a 51 kton magnetized Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector to study atmospheric muon neutrinos. Iron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-17 Daljeet Kaur , Ashok Kumar , Ankit Gaur , Purnendu Kumar , Md. Hasbuddin , Swati Mishra , Praveen Kumar , Md. Naimuddin

The possibility to build a SiPM-readout muon detector (SiRO), using plastic scintillators with optical fibers as sensitive volume and readout by SiPM photo-diodes, is investigated. SiRO shall be used for tracking cosmic muons based on…

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…

The Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) detector of the CMS experiment at the LHC proton collider (CERN, Switzerland) will employ an online gas analysis and monitoring system of the freon-based gas mixture used. We give an overview of the CMS…

The HARP system of resistive plate chambers (RPCs) was designed to perform particle identification by the measurement of the difference in the time-of-flight of different particles. In previous papers an apparent discrepancy was shown…

A challenging goal of 20 ps for the total time resolution of the Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) system has been recently addressed by high energy physics experiments. In order to meet this requirement, one should have a deeper…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-15 Fuyue Wang , Dong Han , Yi Wang , Pengfei Lyu , Yuanjing Li

We present experimental results on the counting rate measurements for several single-gap $^{10}$B lined resistive plate chambers ($^{10}$B-RPCs) with anodes made from standard float glass, low resistivity glass and ceramic. The measurements…

The analog front-end electronics based on the constant fraction discrimination method is designed and optimized for the Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) timing measurements. The total time resolution of 40 ps has been obtained for 10…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-29 L. L. Kurchaninov , E. A. Ladygin , V. P. Ladygin , A. A. Semak

A comparative study has been performed on Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) made of two different grades of bakelite paper laminates, produced and commercially available in India. The chambers, operated in the streamer mode using argon,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-30 S. Biswas , S. Bhattacharya , S. Bose , S. Chattopadhyay , S. Saha , M. K. Sharan , Y. P. Viyogi