Effects of linseed oil treatment on the forward resistive plate chamber for compact muon solenoid in the high-η region

S. H. Ahn, B. Hong, S. J. Hong, M. Ito, T. I. Kang, B. I. Kim, J. H. Kim, H. W. Lee, K. B. Lee, K. S. Lee, J. K. Lim, D. H. Moon, S. Park, W. J. Park, M. S. Ryu, K. S. Sim, S. Y. Bahk, Y. J. Kim, Y. U. Kim, D. G. KooS. J. Lee, S. K. Nam, J. T. Rhee

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    Abstract

    We present the beam test results of a real-sized prototype resistive plate chamber (RFC) for the high-η region of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under a high-radiation environment up to 2 kHz/cm 2. Particularly, we emphasize the effects of a linseed oil treatment on the surfaces of bakelite plates for avalanche-mode operation. The improved quality of the bakelite surface due to the linseed oil coating results in a significant reduction in the intrinsic noise rate and the dark current without affecting the muon detection efficiency. At the same time, the noise cluster size is somewhat increased by the linseed oil treatment, especially, under no radiation background.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1325-1335
    Number of pages11
    JournalJournal of the Korean Physical Society
    Volume46
    Issue number6
    Publication statusPublished - 2005 Jun

    Keywords

    • CMS
    • High-η region
    • LHC
    • Linseed oil
    • Resistive plate chamber

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Physics and Astronomy

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