High-rate glass MRPC for fixed target experiments at Nuclotron

N. A. Kuzmin; E. A. Ladygin; V. P. Ladygin; Yu. P. Petukhov; S. Ya. Sychkov; A. A. Semak; M. N. Ukhanov; E. A. Usenko

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.11.098

paper

High-rate glass MRPC for fixed target experiments at Nuclotron

arXiv:1811.08637 · doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.11.098

Abstract

A Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) equipped with heaters to improve the counting rate capability was designed for the BM@N experiment in Dubna. The measurements were performed using a muon beam at IHEP U-70 accelerator in Protvino. The MRPC at 40 $^{0}$ C tolerates counting rate up to 6 kHz/cm $^{2}$ with time resolution ~65 ps and efficiency ~95\% which complies with the conditions of the experiment.

7 pages, 13 figures