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The CMS experiment, located at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, has a redundant muon system composed by three different detector technologies: Cathode Strip Chambers (in the forward regions), Drift Tubes (in the central region) and Resistive…

A new kind of Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) has been built for the large-area Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) for the STAR experiment at RHIC. These long read-out strip MRPCs (LMRPCs) have an active area of 87.0 x 17.0 cm2 and ten…

The Muon Chamber (MuCh) is a sub-system of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment for the detection of low-mass-vector mesons produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions at beam energies ranging from 2 AGeV to 11 AGeV and decaying…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-04 Mitali Mondal , Tanay Dey , Subhasis Chattopadhyay , Jogender Saini , Zubayer Ahammed

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs), used for the Muon Spectrometer of the ALICE experiment at CERN LHC, are currently operated in maxi-avalanche mode with a low threshold value and without amplification in the front-end electronics. RPC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 Antonio Bianchi

The ALICE Muon IDentifier is composed of 72 single-gap bakelite Resistive Plate Chambers, which have been operational since 2009 in maxi-avalanche mode (discrimination threshold:7 mV without amplification) with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-21 Alessandro Ferretti

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

The phase-out of hydro-fluorocarbons, owing to their high Global Warming Power, affecting the main gas used in Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs), tetrafluoroethane C$_2$H$_2$F$_4$, has increased operational difficulties on existing systems…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-01 A. Blanco , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , M. Pimenta

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 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

In this R&D, an innovative method for producing thin high-pressure laminate (HPL) electrodes for resistive plate chambers (RPC) for future high-energy experiments is introduced. Instead of using thick phenolic HPL (2-mm thick Bakelite),…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-05 Kyong Sei Lee , Giuseppe Iaselli , Youngmin Jo , Minho Kang , Tae Jeong Kim , Dayron Ramos Lopez , Gabriella Pugliese

The Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are going to be used as the active detectors in the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)-Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) experiment for the detection and study of atmospheric neutrinos. In this paper, an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 Ashok Kumar , Ankit Gaur , Md. Hasbuddin , Praveen Kumar , Purnendu Kumar , Daljeet Kaur , Swati Mishra , Md. Naimuddin

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…

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

We describe the most recent efforts made by various groups in implementing resistive electrodes in micropattern gaseous detectors with the aim to combine in the same design the best features of RPCs (for the example, their robustness and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Fonte , P. Martinengo , E. Nappi , R. Oliveira , V. Peskov , F. Pietropaolo , P. Picchi

The ATLAS Muon Spectrometer is undergoing a major upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), including the addition of three new thin-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) layers in the inner barrel region. These RPCs have 1 mm gas gaps…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-10 F. Fallavollita , O. Kortner , H. Kroha , P. Maly , G. Proto , D. Soyk , E. Voevodina , J. Zimmermann

The paper summarizes our latest progress in the development of newly introduced micro pattern gaseous detectors with resistive electrodes. These resistive electrodes protect the detector and the front-end electronics in case of occasional…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Di Mauro , B. Lund-Jensen , P. Martinengo , E. Nappi , R. Oliveira , V. Peskov , L. Periale , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , I. Rodionov , J. C. Santiard

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

The cylindrical drift chamber is the most innovative part of the MEG~II detector, the upgraded version of the MEG experiment. The MEG~II chamber differs from the MEG one because it is a single volume cylindrical structure, instead of a…

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

The dual phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) is the state-of-art technology for neutrino detection thanks to its superb 3D tracking and calorimetry performance. Its main feature is the charge amplification in gas argon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Sebastien Murphy