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Resistive plate chambers for time-of-flight measurements
A. Blanco, P. Fonte, L. Lopes +3
The applications of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) have recently been extended by the development of counters with time resolution below 100 ps sigma for minimum ionising particle…
Perspectives for Positron Emission Tomography with RPCs
A. Blanco, V. Chepel, R. Ferreira-Marques +4
In this study we address the feasibility and main properties of a positron emission tomograph (PET) based on RPCs. The concept, making use of the converter-plate principle, takes a…
A Large Area Timing RPC
A. Blanco, R. Ferreira-Marques, Ch. Finck +4
A large area Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) with a total active surface of 160x10 cm2 was built and tested. The surface was segmented in two 5 cm wide strips readout on both ends wi…
Thin gap parallel mesh chamber: a sparkless high-rate detector
P. Fonte, R. Ferreira-Marques, Y. Ivaniouchenkov +2
In this work we describe a parallel geometry gaseous detector constituted by a thin (0.6 mm) amplifying gap preceded by a drift region. The gap is delimited by a metal plate and by…