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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…
The SND@LHC neutron shielding
LHC Collaboration
The design and construction of a neutron shielding for the SND@LHC detector, which utilizes a combination of plexiglass and borated polyethylene, is presented. FLUKA simulations we…
Studies of Hadronic Showers in SND@LHC
LHC Collaboration
The SND@LHC experiment was built for observing neutrinos arising from LHC pp collisions. The detector consists of two sections: a target instrumented with SciFi modules and a hadro…
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…
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…
Machine Learning based tool for CMS RPC currents quality monitoring
E. Shumka, A. Samalan, M. Tytgat +105
The muon system of the CERN Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment includes more than a thousand Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC). They are gaseous detectors operated in the hostile…
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…
RPC based tracking system at CERN GIF++ facility
K. Mota Amarilo, A. Samalan, M. Tytgat +105
With the HL-LHC upgrade of the LHC machine, an increase of the instantaneous luminosity by a factor of five is expected and the current detection systems need to be validated for s…
Track reconstruction and matching between emulsion and silicon pixel detectors for the SHiP-charm experiment
SHiP Collaboration
In July 2018 an optimization run for the proposed charm cross section measurement for SHiP was performed at the CERN SPS. A heavy, moving target instrumented with nuclear emulsion…
The SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS Beam Dump Facility
SHIP Collaboration
The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for ligh…
Upgrade of the CMS Resistive Plate Chambers for the High Luminosity LHC
A. Samalan, M. Tytgat, G. A. Alves +108
During the upcoming High Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the integrated luminosity of the accelerator will increase to 3000 fb. The expected experime…
Effects of the electronic threshold on the performance of the RPC system of the CMS experiment
W. Elmetenawee
Resistive Plate Chambers have a very important role for muon triggering both in the barrel and in the endcap regions of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In or…
Towards a two-dimensional readout of the improved CMS Resistive Plate Chamber with a new front-end electronics
Sabino Meola
As part of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment Phase-II upgrade program, new Resistive Plate Chambers will be installed in the forward region. High background conditions are expec…
Experiences from the RPC data taking during the CMS RUN-2
Mehar Ali Shah
The CMS experiment recorded 177.75 /fb of proton-proton collision data during the RUN-1 and RUN-2 data taking period. Successful data taking at increasing instantaneous luminositie…
CMS RPC Background -- Studies and Measurements
R. Hadjiiska, A. Samalan, M. Tytgat +106
The expected radiation background in the CMS RPC system has been studied using the MC prediction with the CMS FLUKA simulation of the detector and the cavern. The MC geometry used…
Aging Study on Resistive Plate Chambers of the CMS Muon Detector for HL-LHC
R. Aly
In the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) program, during the next years, the instantaneous luminosity will increase up to 5 10 cm s which…
Improved-RPC for the CMS muon system upgrade for the HL-LHC
Priyanka Kumari
During Phase-2 of the LHC, known as the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the accelerator will increase its instantaneous luminosity to 5 10 cm s, deliver…
SND@LHC
SHiP Collaboration, C. Ahdida, A. Akmete +341
We propose to build and operate a detector that, for the first time, will measure the process at the LHC and search for feebly interacting particles (FIPs) in an unexplor…
Measurement of the muon flux for the SHiP experiment
SHiP Collaboration
The SHiP experiment will search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 \GeV/ proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. About $10^{11…
XSEN: a N Cross Section Measurement using High Energy Neutrinos from pp collisions at the LHC
N. Beni, S. Buontempo, T. Camporesi +20
XSEN (Cross Section of Energetic Neutrinos) is a small experiment designed to study, for the first time, neutrino-nucleon interactions (including the tau flavour) in the 0.5-1 TeV…
CMS-XSEN: LHC Neutrinos at CMS. Experiment Feasibility Study
S. Buontempo, G. M. Dallavalle, G. De Lellis +2
We discuss a CMS eXtension for Studying Energetic Neutrinos (CMS-XSEN). Neutrinos at the LHC are abundant and have unique features: their energies reach out to the TeV range, and t…
The active muon shield in the SHiP experiment
SHiP collaboration, A. Akmete, A. Alexandrov +229
The SHiP experiment is designed to search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 GeV/c proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. An ess…