Resistive Plate Chambers in the ARGO-YBJ experiment: operational features monitoring and control

Camarri, P.

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“…It has been already used to study the dependence of the detector efficiency and time resolution on the monitored temperature [5]. For the present study [6] the cosmic-ray telescope has been slightly modified, and its basic layout is shown in figure 2.…”

Section: Testing and Monitoring Facility At The Argo-ybj Sitementioning

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Operational features, monitoring and control for the RPCs in the ARGO-YBJ experiment

Camarri

2013

J. Inst.

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The ARGO-YBJ experiment is a full-coverage array of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) covering a surface of 74 × 78 m 2 surrounded by a guard ring. It has been running almost uninterruptedly with its complete layout since November 2007. However, the work to optimize the stability of the experimental setup is still going on. The recorded daily and seasonal changes of temperature and barometric pressure affect the behaviour of the detector, in particular the time resolution and somehow the efficiency. Here a procedure is described for the equalization and the stabilization of the detector response. KEYWORDS: Gaseous detectors; Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems, architecture, hardware, algorithms, databases)1 On behalf of the ARGO-YBJ Collaboration

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Operational features, monitoring and control for the RPCs in the ARGO-YBJ experiment

Camarri

2013

J. Inst.

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“…MRPCs are, thus, high granularity, high-resolution inexpensive TOF system (compared to standard scintillator with PMTs) appropriate for large scale applications. This includes both fundamental research in particle physics large scale experiments i.e, STAR [6,7], HARP [8], AL-ICE [9,10], astrophysics [11], cosmology [12], nuclear physics HADES [13,14], FOPI [15][16][17], and applied research in medical imaging (cost effective Positron Emission Tomography) [18,19], security purpose like cosmic muon tomography [20], climate change [21] etc. The response of such detector under irradiation by the γ-ray [22] and neutrons has not been studied in details [22][23][24][25].…”

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Response of multi-strip multi-gap resistive plate chamber

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A prototype of Multi-strip Multi-gap Resistive Plate chamber (MMRPC) with active area 40 cm × 20 cm has been developed at SINP, Kolkata. Detailed response of the developed detector was studied with the pulsed electron beam from ELBE at Helmholtz-Zentrum DresdenRossendorf. In this report the response of SINP developed MMRPC with different controlling parameters is described in details. The obtained time resolution (σ t ) of the detector after slew correction was 91.5±3 ps. Position resolution measured along (σ x ) and across (σ y ) the strip was 2.8±0.6 cm and 0.58 cm, respectively. The measured absolute efficiency of the detector for minimum ionizing particle like electron was 95.8±1.3 %. Better timing resolution of the detector can be achieved by restricting the events to a single strip. The response of the detector was mainly in avalanche mode but a few percentage of streamer mode response was also observed. A comparison of the response of these two modes with trigger rate was studied.

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“…The situation of the RPCs dedicated to Cosmic Ray shower detection is in some sense similar. The Argo-YBJ detector has been running very smoothly during the last 4 years [3] with duty cycle close to unity and very modest maintenance. It produced relevant physics results mainly in the study of CR anisotropy and variable intensity gamma sources at the TeV energy [4].…”

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New generations of RPCs for accelerator and non-accelerator physics

Santonico

2013

J. Inst.

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The purpose of the present paper is to propose basic ideas for new types of RPCs to be used in the next generation super-collider experiments as well as in the Cosmic Ray Astrophysics of the next future. The relevant parameters to be improved in view of the first application are the rate capability as well as the timing and tracking accuracy. For the Cosmic Ray (CR) physics a calorimeter approach to the detection of Extensive Air Showers is proposed.

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Resistive Plate Chambers in the ARGO-YBJ experiment: operational features monitoring and control

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Operational features, monitoring and control for the RPCs in the ARGO-YBJ experiment

Operational features, monitoring and control for the RPCs in the ARGO-YBJ experiment

Response of multi-strip multi-gap resistive plate chamber

New generations of RPCs for accelerator and non-accelerator physics

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