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most citedPhysics Potential of the ICAL detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)

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physics.ins-det2024

Discharge quenching mechanism and performance of RPWELL with tunable 3D printed resistive plates, charge evacuation in semiconductive glass RPWELL and discharge quenching for Cryogenic-RWELL over a wide range of resistivity

Abhik Jash, Luca Moleri, Andrea Tesi +1

Resistive electrodes are used in gaseous detectors to quench electrical discharges. This helps to protect delicate electrodes and readout electronics and to improve the stability o…

physics.ins-det2023

Cryogenic RPWELL: a novel charge-readout element for dual-phase argon TPCs

A. Tesi, S. Leardini, L. Moleri +5

The first operation of a cryogenic Resistive Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector in the saturated vapor of liquid argon is reported. The RPWELL detector was composed of a Thick Gas Electr…

physics.ins-det2023

The cryogenic RWELL: a stable charge multiplier for dual-phase liquid-argon detectors

A. Tesi, S. Leardini, L. Moleri +4

The operation of a cryogenic Resistive WELL (RWELL) in liquid argon vapor is reported for the first time. It comprises a Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) structure coupled to…

physics.ins-det2023★ 3 cited

Novel resistive charge-multipliers for dual-phase LAr-TPCs: towards stable operation at higher gains

A. Tesi, L. Moleri, S. Leardini +5

Cryogenic versions of Resistive WELL (RWELL) and Resistive Plate WELL (RPWELL) detectors have been developed, aimed at stable avalanche multiplication of ionization electrons in du…

physics.ins-det2023

Towards a large-area RPWELL detector: design optimization and performance

D. Zavazieva, L. Moleri, A. Jash +3

We present a new design and assembly procedure of a large-area gas-avalanche Resistive-Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector. A prototype was tested in $\mathrm{…

physics.ins-det2023★ 15 cited

The Thick Gas Electron Multiplier and its derivatives: physics, technologies and applications

Shikma Bressler, Luca Moleri, Abhik Jash +2

The Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) is a robust high-gain gas-avalanche electron multiplier - a building block of a variety of radiation detectors. It can be manufactured eco…

physics.ins-det2022★ 10 cited

Electrical breakdown in Thick-GEM based WELL detectors

Abhik Jash, Luca Moleri, Shikma Bressler

The occurrence of electrical discharges in gas detectors restricts their dynamic range and degrades their performance. Among the different methods developed to mitigate discharge e…

physics.ins-det2018★ 1 cited

Numerical studies on effect of operating conditions and geometrical components on the timing response and efficiency of RPC

Abhik Jash, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay +1

A detailed numerical simulation has been performed to investigate the timing properties of a standard RPC geometry in order to optimize its application in INO-ICAL experiment desig…

physics.ins-det2018★ 10 cited

Material Identification with Cosmic Ray Muons using RPCs

Sridhar Tripathy, Jaydeep Datta, Abhik Jash +4

We plan to build an imaging setup for material identification utilizing the Coulomb scattering of cosmic ray muons due to their interaction with the materials and tracking their tr…

physics.ins-det2016

Effect of plate roughness on the field near RPC plates

Abhik Jash, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay +1

The inner surfaces of the electrodes encompassing the gas volume of a Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) have been found to exhibit asperities with, grossly, three kinds of features. Th…

physics.ins-det2016★ 4 cited

Numerical study on the effect of design parameters and spacers on RPC signal and timing properties

Abhik Jash, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay +2

Numerical calculations have been performed to understand the reason for the observed non-uniform response of a Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) in a few critical regions such as near…

physics.ins-det2015★ 178 cited

Physics Potential of the ICAL detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)

The ICAL Collaboration, Shakeel Ahmed, M. Sajjad Athar +89

The upcoming 50 kt magnetized iron calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is designed to study the atmospheric neutrinos and antineutrinos separa…