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Principles of operation, construction and first test results of a Dielectric Resistive Plate Chamber (DRPC) are described. The detector has shown stability of operation in the avalanche mode of gas amplfication within a wide range of…

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

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

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

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 technique for detection of slow neutrons with gaseous detectors using ultra-thin layers with 10B atoms is presented. The reaction between a thermal neutron and a 10B atom releases 2 secondary particles, namely a 7Li ion and an alpha…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-06 N. F. V. Duarte , J. S. Marcos , A. Antognini , C. Klauser , S. A. Felix , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. D. Amaro

The Helium-3 shortage and the growing interest in neutron science constitute a driving factor in developing new neutron detection technologies. In this work, we report the development of a double-GEM detector prototype that uses a…

A 2D neutron detector based on 3He convertor and MWPC with an active area of 200 mm \times 200 mm has been successfully designed and fabricated. The detector has been tested with Am/Be neutron source and with collimated neutron beam with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-05-23 Tian LiChao , Chen YuanBo , Tang Bin , Zhou JianRong , Qi HuiRong , Liu RongGuang , Zhang Jian , Yang GuiAn , Xu Hong , Chen DongFeng , Sun ZhiJia

The three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of nuclear recoils is of interest for directional detection of fast neutrons and for direction-sensitive searches for weakly interacting massive particles(WIMPs), which may constitute the Dark…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 S. E. Vahsen , M. T. Hedges , I. Jaegle , S. J. Ross , I. S. Seong , T. N. Thorpe , J. Yamaoka , J. A. Kadyk , M. Garcia-Sciveres

In this paper, the detection efficiency of a large area neutron sensitive microchannel plate detector has been evaluated. A 6LiF/ZnS detector was employed as the benchmark detector, the TOF spectra of these two detectors were simultaneously…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-08 Yiming Wang , Yigang Yang , Ren Liu

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology is commonly utilized in neutrino detector designs. It enables detailed reconstruction of neutrino events with high spatial precision and low energy threshold. Its field response (FR)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-03 S. Martynenko , F. Pietropaolo , B. Viren , X. Qian , H. Chen , S. Gao , W. Gu , J. Jo , S. Kettell , Y. Li , H. Liu , N. Nayak , B. Yu , H. Yu , C. Zhang , U. Kose , F. Resnati , S. Tufanli , F. Boran , F. Dolek

To address the problem of the shortage of neutron detectors used in radiation portal monitors (RPMs), caused by the 3He supply crisis, research on a cadmium-based capture-gated fast neutron detector is presented in this paper. The detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Yi Liu , Yigang Yang , Yang Tai , Zhi Zhang

Nowadays, commonly used Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) have counting rate capabilities of ~10E4Hz/cm2 and position resolutions of ~1cm. We have developed small prototypes of RPCs (5x5 and 10x10cm2) having rate capabilities of up to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 C. Iacobaeus , P. Fonte , T. Francke , J. Ostling , V. Peskov , J. Rantanen , I. Rodionov

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

Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber(MRPC) is a widely used timing detector with a typical time resolution of about 60 ps. This makes MRPC an optimal choice for the time of flight(ToF) system in many large physics experiments. The prior work…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Fuyue Wang , Dong Han , Yi Wang , Yancheng Yu , Baohong Guo , Yuanjing Li

To achieve high-resolution muography of compact targets in scenarios with complex logistical constraints, we are developing a portable muon detector system utilizing glass Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). Although RPCs are well understood…

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…

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…

Energy-resolved neutron imaging at a pulsed source utilizes the energy-dependent neutron transmission measured via time-of-flight to extract quantitative information about the internal microstructure of an object. At the RADEN instrument at…

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

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…