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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 standard gas mixture for the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC), composed of C2H2F4/i-C4H10/SF6, allows the detector operation in avalanche mode, as required by the high-luminosity collider experiments. The gas density, the low current and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-10 Giorgia Proto

A cylindrical GEM tracker is under construction in order to replace and improve the inner tracking system of the BESIII experiment. Tests with planar chamber prototypes were carried out on the H4 beam line of SPS (CERN) with muons of 150…

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…

The Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) muon subsystem contributes significantly to the formation of the trigger decision and reconstruction of the muon trajectory parameters. Simulation of the RPC response is a crucial part of the entire CMS…

We present recent results of an extensive aging test, performed at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility on two single--gap RPC prototypes, developed for the LHCb Muon System. With a method based on a model describing the behaviour of an RPC…

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

A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is a powerful detector for 3-dimensional tracking and particle identification for ultra-high multiplicity events. It is the central tracking device of many experiments, e.g. the ALICE experiment at CERN. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Bernhard Ketzer

We report on studies of fast triggering and high-precision tracking using Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs). Two beam tests were carried out with the 180 GeV muon beam at CERN using RPCs with gas gaps of 1.00 or 1.15 mm and equipped with…

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

The advent of high-power Hall thrusters and the increasing interest towards their use as a primary propulsion system for various missions have given a new boost to the efforts aiming at self-consistent predictive modeling of this thruster…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Farbod Faraji , Maryam Reza , Aaron Knoll

We present here detailed derivations of mathematical expressions for the accuracy in the arrival direction of particles estimated using a set of stacked resistive plate chambers (RPCs). The expressions are validated against experimental…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-08 Deepak Samuel , Pratibha B Onikeri , Lakshmi P Murgod

We report on the development of an GRPCs (Glass Resistive Plate chambers) Semi- Digital hadron calorimeter for the future International Linear Collider (ILC).Two types of GRPCs (small and 1m2) were tested in PS beam at CERN. Detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-08-24 Khaled Belkadhi

Calorimeter shower simulations are often the bottleneck in simulation time for particle physics detectors. A lot of effort is currently spent on optimizing generative architectures for specific detector geometries, which generalize poorly.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-19 Junze Liu , Aishik Ghosh , Dylan Smith , Pierre Baldi , Daniel Whiteson

Objective: To increase the impedance signal amplitude produced during neural activity using a novel approach of implementing a parallel resistor inductor capacitor (RLC) circuit across the current source used in electrical impedance…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-06 James Hope , Zaid Aqrawe , Marshall Lim , Frederique Vanholsbeeck , Andrew McDaid

This paper summarizes the beam test results obtained with a Resistive Silicon Detector (RSD) (also called AC-Low Gain Avalanche Diode, AC-LGAD) pixel array tested at the DESY beam test facility with a 5 GeV/c electron beam. Furthermore, it…

Mainly due to their outstanding performance the position sensitive silicon detectors are widely used in the tracking systems of High Energy Physics experiments such as the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb at LHC, the world's largest particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-16 Timo Peltola

The reduction of the average charge per count in the gas along with the capability to discriminate very small signals from noise can allow an efficient and long-term Resistive Plate Chamber detector operation in high radiation background…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Luca Pizzimento

The acceleration of protons and electrons in a reconnecting current sheet (RCS) is simulated with a particle-in-cell (PIC) 2D3V code for the proton-to-electron mass ratio of 100. The electro-magnetic configuration forming the RCS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Taras V. Siversky , Valentina V. Zharkova

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) at CERN LHC is presently equipped with Multi Wire Proportional Chambers (MWPCs). A gating grid prevents ions produced during the gas amplification from moving into…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Alexander Deisting , Chilo Garabatos