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The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) collaboration has chosen glass Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as the active detector elements for the Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) experiment. In the present work, we study the electrical properties…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-21 K. Raveendrababu , P. K. Behera , B. Satyanarayana

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…

A prototype of a single-gap glass Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is constructed by the authors. To find the considerations required for better operation of the detector's gas system, we have simulated the flow of the Ar gas through the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-30 Yousef Pezeshkian , Amir Kiyoumarsioskouei , Majid Ahmadpouri , Ghasem Ghorbani

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

India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) collaboration is planning to build a magnetized Iron-CALorimeter detector (ICAL) for the study of atmospheric neutrinos. ICAL detector will be a stack of 151 layers of magnetized iron plates…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-12 Manisha , V. Bhatnagar , J. S. Shahi

Muography is finding applications in various domains such as volcanology, archaeology, civil engineering, industry, mining, and nuclear waste surveys. To simplify transportation and installation in remote locations after laboratory testing,…

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…

With the HL-LHC upgrade of the LHC machine, an increase of the instantaneous luminosity by a factor of five is expected and the current detection systems need to be validated for such working conditions to ensure stable data taking. At the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-17 K. Mota Amarilo , A. Samalan , M. Tytgat , M. El Sawy , G. A. Alves , F. Marujo , E. A. Coelho , E. M. Da Costa , H. Nogima , A. Santoro , S. Fonseca De Souza , D. De Jesus Damiao , M. Thiel , M. Barroso Ferreira Filho , A. Aleksandrov , R. Hadjiiska , P. Iaydjiev , M. Rodozov , M. Shopova , G. Soultanov , A. Dimitrov , L. Litov , B. Pavlov , P. Petkov , A. Petrov , E. Shumka , S. J. Qian , H. Kou , Z. -A. Liu , J. Zhao , J. Song , Q. Hou , W. Diao , P. Cao , C. Avila , D. Barbosa , A. Cabrera , A. Florez , J. Fraga , J. Reyes , Y. Assran , M. A. Mahmoud , Y. Mohammed , I. Crotty , I. Laktineh , G. Grenier , M. Gouzevitch , L. Mirabito , K. Shchablo , I. Bagaturia , I. Lomidze , Z. Tsamalaidze , V. Amoozegar , B. Boghrati , M. Ebraimi , M. Mohammadi Najafabadi , E. Zareian , M. Abbrescia , G. Iaselli , G. Pugliese , F. Loddo , N. De Filippis , R. Aly , D. Ramos , W. Elmetenawee , S. Leszki , I. Margjeka , D. Paesani , L. Benussi , S. Bianco , D. Piccolo , S. Meola , S. Buontempo , F. Carnevali , L. Lista , P. Paolucci , F. Fienga , A. Braghieri , P. Salvini , P. Montagna , C. Riccardi , P. Vitulo , E. Asilar , J. Choi , T. J. Kim , S. Y. Choi , B. Hong , K. S. Lee , H. Y. Oh , J. Goh , I. Yu , C. Uribe Estrada , I. Pedraza , H. Castilla-Valdez , A. Sanchez-Hernandez , R. L. Fernandez , M. Ramirez-Garcia , E. Vazquez , M. A. Shah , N. Zaganidis , A. Radi , H. Hoorani , S. Muhammad , A. Ahmad , I. Asghar , W. A. Khan , J. Eysermans , F. Torres Da Silva De Araujo

To meet the need for a high counting rate and high time resolution in future high-energy physics experiments, a prototype of a gas photodetector with an RPC structure was developed. Garfield++ simulated the detector's performance, and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-30 Yiding Zhao , D. Hu , M. Shao , Y. Zhou , S. Lv , Xiangqi Tian , Anqi Wang , Xueshen Lin , Hao Pang , Y. Suna

In this paper we present results from a test of a small Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). This detector concept provides a 3D-tracking and calorimetric device capable of charge amplification,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-28 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , A. Marchionni , G. Natterer , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

A study has been carried out to evaluate the performance stability of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) chamber prototypes in the laboratory using $^{55}$Fe radiation source with Argon and CO$_2$ gas mixture. This research focuses on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-10 S. Mandal , S. Gope , S. Das , S. Biswas

We report on a feasibility study conducted at the ELBA facility at ELI Beamlines in 2025 to investigate the possible production of muons from high-energy electron beams generated by extended laser-plasma interactions in optically generated…

The Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) provide excellent timing as well as position resolutions at relatively low cost. Therefore, they can be used in medical imaging applications such as PET where precise timing is a crucial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-23 M. Nizam , B. Satyanarayana , R. R. Shinde , G. Majumder

The contribution of Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) to muon reconstruction in CMS has been studied on a sample of muons collected in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC in 2011. Muon reconstruction is performed using the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Min Suk Kim

The mitigation of human-induced climate change is of crucial importance for the sustainability of humankind. For this aim the RPC community has exerted considerable effort over the last decade to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Lopes P. Assis , A. Blanco , P. Fonte , M. Pimenta

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) were used for the instrumentation of the iron flux return of the BABAR detector as a muon system. Unfortunately the efficiency of the original RPCs degraded rapidly with time. Limited Streamer Tubes (LSTs)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Wolfgang Menges

Resistive plate chambers (RPC) lined with $^{10}B_{4}$C neutron converters is a promising cost effective technology for position-sensitive thermal neutron detection capable to outperform $^{3}$He-based detectors in terms of spatial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 L. M. S. Margato , A. Morozov , A. Blanco , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , K. Zeitelhack , R. Hall-Wilton , C. Höglund , L. Robinson , S. Schmidt , P. Svensson

Multi-gap RPC prototypes with readout on a multi-strip electrode were developed for the small polar angle region of the CBM-TOF subdetector, the most demanding zone in terms of granularity and counting rate. The prototypes are based on low…

The inner surfaces of the electrodes encompassing the gas volume of a Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) have been found to exhibit asperities with, grossly, three kinds of features. The desired uniform electric field within the gas volume of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-27 Abhik Jash , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Subhasis Chattopadhyay