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Performance and long-term aging studies on Eco-Friendly Resistive Plate Chamber detectors
D. Ahmadi, M. Tytgat
Resistive Plate Chambers detectors are extensively used in several domains of Physics. In High Energy Physics, they are typically operated in avalanche mode with a high-performance…
Resistive Plate Chamber Detector Construction and Certification: State-of-the-Art Facilities at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, in Partnership with Industrial Partners
Davide Costa, Francesco Fallavollita, Hubert Kroha +6
Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) featuring 1 mm gas volumes combined with high-pressure phenolic laminate (HPL) electrodes provide excellent timing resolution down to a few hundred…
Study of environment friendly gas mixtures for the Resistive Plate Chambers of the ATLAS phase-2 upgrade
Giorgia Proto
The standard gas mixture for the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC), composed of C2H2F4/i-C4H10/SF6, allows the detector operation in avalanche mode, as required by the high-luminosity…
Signal shape studies and rate dependence of HFO-based gas mixtures in RPC detectors
L. Quaglia, M. Abbrescia, G. Aielli +56
The RPCs employed at the LHC experiments are currently operated in avalanche mode, with a mixture containing a large fraction of CHF (90\% or more) with…
New Facilities for the Production of 1 mm gap Resistive Plate Chambers for the Upgrade of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer
F. Fallavollita, O. Kortner, H. Kroha +5
The ATLAS Muon Spectrometer is undergoing a major upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), including the addition of three new thin-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) layers in…
Exploring Eco-Friendly Gas Mixtures for Resistive Plate Chambers: A Comprehensive Study on Performance and Aging
The RPC ECOGas@GIF++ collaboration, :, L. Quaglia +57
Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are gaseous detectors widely used in high energy physics experiments, operating with a gas mixture primarily containing Tetrafluoroethane (CH$…
High-rate tests on Resistive Plate Chambers operated with eco-friendly gas mixtures
M. Abbrescia, G. Aielli, R. Aly +52
Results obtained by the RPC ECOgas@GIF++ Collaboration, using Resistive Plate Chambers operated with new, eco-friendly gas mixtures, based on Tetrafluoropropene and carbon dioxide,…
Preliminary results on the long term operation of RPCs with eco-friendly gas mixtures under irradiation at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility
L. Quaglia, D. Ramos, M. Abbrescia +55
Since 2019 a collaboration between researchers from various institutes and experiments (i.e. ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, LHCb/SHiP and the CERN EP-DT group), has been operating several RPCs…
Eco-friendly Resistive Plate Chambers for detectors in future HEP applications
Luca Quaglia
Resistive Plate Chamber detectors are largely used in current High Energy Physics experiments, typically operated in avalanche mode with large fractions of Tetrafluoroethane (C2H2F…
Searching for an eco-friendly gas mixture for the ALICE Resistive Plate Chambers
Luca Quaglia, R. Cardarelli, B. Liberti +47
The ALICE RPCs are operated with a mixture of 89.7% , 10% i- and 0.3% . and are fluorinated greenhouse gases with a…
Studies on tetrafluoropropene-CO2 based gas mixtures for the Resistive Plate Chambers of the ALICE Muon IDentifier
Alessandro Ferretti
Due to their simplicity and comparatively low cost Resistive Plate Chambers are gaseous detectors widely used in high-energy and cosmic rays physics when large detection areas are…
On a new environment-friendly gas mixture for Resistive Plate Chambers
G. Proto, B. Liberti, R. Santonico +9
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…
Characterization of new eco friendly gas mixtures based on HFO for RPCs
G. Proto, G. Aielli, E. Alunno Camelia +11
The ATLAS RPC standard mixture, mainly based on CHF, has a high Global Warming Potential (GWP) and therefore the search for RPC eco friendly gases is mandatory. I…
Linearity and rate capability measurements of RPC with semi-insulating crystalline electrodes operating in avalanche mode
A. Rocchi, R. Cardarelli, B. Liberti +12
The intrinsic rate capability and the ageing properties of the Resistive Plate Chambers are closely related to the electrodes material and to the front-end electronics threshold. T…