On a new environment-friendly gas mixture for Resistive Plate Chambers
arXiv:2112.02659 · doi:10.1088/1748-0221/17/05/P05005
Abstract
This paper studies the performance of RPCs working with a new family of environment-friendly operating gases, mainly based on Carbon Dioxide and Hydro-Fluoro-Olefins. The tests are carried out on a 2 mm gap RPC and concern the measurement of detection efficiency, avalanche-to-streamer transition probability, prompt and ionic charge delivered. The timing properties of the new gas are also measured.
20 pages, 17 figures