Abstract
We report a new development of a phenolic four-gap resistive plate chamber (RPC) for use as a high-rate particle trigger in high-energy physics experiments. In the current study, a prototype RPC equipped with four 1-mm-thick gaps made from high-pressure-laminated (HPL) resistive plates has been designed and built. The current detector R&D aims to reduce the probability of radiation-induced degradation of the core detector components of the RPCs, the gas gaps, as well as to improve the detection rate capability. The detector characteristics of the four-gap RPC were obtained though a series of tests with cosmic muons and gamma rays and were compared with those of the typical 2-mm thick double-gap RPCs currently used in the CMS experiment at the LHC and in the PHENIX experiment at the RHIC.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 134-138 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
Volume | 680 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 Jul 11 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea under a Grant No. K20802011718-11B1301-00610 . The authors also wish to thank Prof. Inkyu Park, University of Seoul, for the effective coordination of the project.
Keywords
- Aging effect
- HPL
- Multigap RPCs
- Muon trigger detectors
- Rate capability
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Instrumentation