Use of RPC in EAS physics with the COVER_PLASTEX experiment

Agnetta, G.; Ambrosio, M.; Aramo, C.; Barbarino, G. C.; Biondo, B.; Catalano, O.; Colesanti, L.; Erlykin, A.D.; Lauro, A.; Mangano, A.; Russo, F.

doi:10.1016/0168-9002(96)00677-8

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“…Literature confirms that Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) [1] have been applied with great success in many High Energy and Nuclear Physics experiments over the last two decades. In Cosmic Ray Physics, RPCs have been already used in the COVER-PLASTEX (An Experiment to Analyze the Space-Time Structure of EAS Fronts) [2] and ARGO/YBJ (Astrophysical Radiation with Ground-based Observatory at YangBaJing) [3] experiments. They have started to be applied also in the radiography of vulcanos using cosmic ray muons [4,5].…”

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Study of standalone RPC detectors for cosmic ray experiments in outdoor environment

Lopes¹,

Fonte²,

Pimenta³

2013

J. Inst.

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The capability of covering very large areas at low cost, besides showing excellent performance in many aspects, motivated the application of RPCs to Nuclear and High Energy Physics and also to Cosmic Ray Physics research in experiments such as COVER-PLASTEX and ARGO/YBJ. The RPCs capabilities could be used to measure new observables, or to improve resolution of actual ones, namely the sensitivity to the details of the depth development of extensive air showers from muon time distributions. Since these detectors so far have been used in indoor conditions, the main challenge is to develop detectors that can operate under harsh conditions, low energy budget, low cost per unit area, with very sparse opportunities for maintenance, and with good resilience to environmental conditions. Since the greatest challenges are the high voltage distribution/insulation and gas tightness we confine the detector in a sealed plastic box. With this approach we decouple the readout electrodes from the high voltage, allowing for different readout electrode distributions and respecting the requirements of each system with reduced effort. The detector is impervious to humidity and requires only 0.4 cm 3 /min of gas flow rate, equivalent to 1 kg/year of R-134a.

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Study of standalone RPC detectors for cosmic ray experiments in outdoor environment

Lopes¹,

Fonte²,

Pimenta³

2013

J. Inst.

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“…last two decades. In cosmic ray physics, RPCs have been already used in the COVER-PLASTEX [2] and ARGO/YBJ [3] experiments.…”

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Study of RPCs for autonomous stations in cosmic ray research

Lopes¹,

Fonte²,

Pimenta³

2012

Proceedings of XI Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors — PoS(RPC2012)

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The capability of covering very large areas at low cost, besides showing excellent performance in many aspects, motivated the application of RPCs to Nuclear and High Energy Physics and also to Cosmic Ray research in experiments such as COVER-PLASTEX and ARGO/YBJ. Such detectors, however, require indoor conditions and support systems. For very high energy cosmic ray research, where shower sampling is mandatory, it would be convenient to develop detectors that could be deployed in small standalone stations, with very sparse opportunities for maintenance, and with good resilience to environmental conditions. With this aim we developed glass RPCs that are confined to a sealed plastic box housing all high voltage and gas distribution. The detector is impervious to humidity and requires only 0.4 cc/min of gas flow rate, equivalent to 1 kg/year of R-134a. Arbitrary readout electrodes can be applied externally.

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“…The RPCs in CBM, therefore, should be capable of handling these high rates for muon detection with high efficiency (∼ 90 %). Cosmic ray experiments like Cover Plastex [9] in UK, Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory [10] in Argentina, neutrino physics experiments like Daya Bay Reactor in China [11] and INO-ICAL in India [12], high energy physics experiments like CMS, ALICE, ATLAS at LHC [13], BaBar at PEPII [14] and BELLE at KEKB [15] are using or planning to use RPCs for muon detection at various particle rates. These detectors are preferred for muon detection due to several reasons, (e) the possibility to build them in large areas and in different shapes [8].…”

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Performance of a prototype bakelite RPC at GIF++ using self-triggered electronics for the CBM Experiment at FAIR

Mondal,

Dey,

Chattopadhyay

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Preprint

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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 in the di-muon channel. MuCh consists of a segmented absorber and four detector triplet stations sandwiched between the absorber segments. At the 3 rd and 4 th stations of MuCh, Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) have been conceived for muon tracking. We have tested the performance of a low resistivity bakelite RPC prototype equipped with self-triggered front end electronics (MuCh-XYTER) for the CBM Muon Chamber. A systematic study on the muon detection efficiency and time resolution has been carried out in a high-rate photon background at the Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF++) at CERN. The details of the measurement setup and the results are presented here.

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Use of RPC in EAS physics with the COVER_PLASTEX experiment

Cited by 18 publications

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Study of standalone RPC detectors for cosmic ray experiments in outdoor environment

Study of standalone RPC detectors for cosmic ray experiments in outdoor environment

Study of RPCs for autonomous stations in cosmic ray research

Performance of a prototype bakelite RPC at GIF++ using self-triggered electronics for the CBM Experiment at FAIR

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