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Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is one of the most commonly used detectors in high energy physics experiments for triggering and tracking because of its good efficiency ($\textgreater$~90\%) and time resolution ($\sim$~1-2~ns). Generally,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-21 A. Sen , S. Mandal , S. Chatterjee , S. Gope , S. Das , S. Biswas

Single gap Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is one of the very popular gaseous detectors used in high-energy physics experiments nowadays. It is a very fast detector having low cost of fabrication. The RPCs are usually built using glass or…

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

In this paper we would like to present a few characteristics of the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) made of a particular grade of bakelite paper laminates (P-120, NEMA LI-1989 Grade XXX), produced and commercially available in India. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-02 S. Biswas , S. Bhattacharya , S. Bose , S. Chattopadhyay , S. Saha , Y. P. Viyogi

Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is a gaseous detector, known for its good spatial resolution and excellent time resolution. Due to its fast response and excellent time resolution, it is used for both triggering and timing purpose. But the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-26 Jaydeep Datta , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Sandip Sarkar

Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is a type of gaseous detector having excellent time and position resolutions. VECC is involved in the R\&D of indigenously developed bakelite RPCs. The largest size of bakelite RPC developed in India is 100 cm…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-17 R. Ganai , K. Agarwal , A. Roy , B. Muduli , S. Chattopadhyay , Z. Ahammed , G. Das , S. Ramnarayan

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

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

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

The Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) is an advanced form of Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) detector where the gas gap is divided into sub-gaps. MRPCs are known for their good time resolution and detection efficiency for charged…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-15 Rajesh Ganai , Mitali Mondal , Shaifali Mehta , Zubayer Ahammed , Subhasis Chattopadhyay

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 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) 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…

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

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-02-21 S. Biswas , S. Bhattacharya , S. Bose , S. Chattopadhyay , S. Saha , M. K. Sharan , Y. P. Viyogi

The limitation of the detection rate of standard bakelite resistive plate chambers (RPC) used as muon detectors in the LHC experiments has prevented the use of such detectors in the high rate regions in both CMS and ATLAS detectors. One…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 Y. Haddad , G. Grenier , I. Laktineh , N. Lumb , S. Cauwenbergh

Resistive Plate Chamber detectors are largely used in current High Energy Physics experiments, typically operated in avalanche mode with large fractions of Tetrafluoroethane (C2H2F4), a gas recently banned by the European Union due to its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-16 Luca Quaglia

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

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

This document presents an overview of the activities of Brazilian groups on gaseous detectors, with emphasis on resistive plate chambers (RPCs) for the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC and related applications. It summarises the design,…

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
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