Electronically Conductive Vanadate Glasses for Resistive Plate Chamber Particle Detectors

Nicole Johnson; Gene Wehr; Eric Hoar; Siyu Xian; Ugur Akgun; Steve Feller; Mario Affatigato; Jose Repond; Lei Xia; Burak Bilki; Yasar Onel

doi:10.1111/ijag.12109

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Electronically Conductive Vanadate Glasses for Resistive Plate Chamber Particle Detectors

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Electronically Conductive Vanadate Glasses for Resistive Plate Chamber Particle Detectors

Nicole Johnson, Gene Wehr, Eric Hoar, Siyu Xian, Ugur Akgun, Steve Feller, Mario Affatigato, Jose Repond, Lei Xia, Burak Bilki, …

International journal of applied glass science, Vol.6(1), pp.26-33

03/2015

DOI: 10.1111/ijag.12109

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Particle detectors are constantly being built and refitted with new technology to improve the spatial resolution, radiation hardness, and speed at which the detector can capture particle events. One of the most crucial components of a modern collider experiment is the hadron calorimeter. One of the proposed improvements on future hadron calorimeters is to utilize resistive plate chambers (RPCs). They provide the spatial and energy resolution as well as could provide speed and radiation hardness. RPCs depend on manufacturing electrically conductive glasses that are mechanically strong, durable, radiation resistant, and not ionically conductive. To achieve such requirements, vanadate glasses were developed as alternatives to current prototypes which use soda lime silicate glasses. The conductivity, oxidation states of vanadium, radiation hardness, as well as the prototype performance, were tested on vanadate glasses. The prototype tests show that using 0.40ZnO-0.40TeO2-0.20V2O5 can improve the RPC detector rate up to 100 times.

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Title: Subtitle: Electronically Conductive Vanadate Glasses for Resistive Plate Chamber Particle Detectors
Creators: Nicole Johnson - Coe College
Gene Wehr - Coe College
Eric Hoar - Coe College
Siyu Xian - Coe College
Ugur Akgun - Coe College
Steve Feller - Coe College
Mario Affatigato - Coe College
Jose Repond - Argonne National Laboratory
Lei Xia - Argonne National Laboratory
Burak Bilki - University of Iowa
Yasar Onel - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: International journal of applied glass science, Vol.6(1), pp.26-33
DOI: 10.1111/ijag.12109
ISSN: 2041-1286
eISSN: 2041-1294
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Number of pages: 8
Grant note: DOI: 10.13039/100000015, name: U.S. Department of Energy
Language: English
Date published: 03/2015
Academic Unit: Physics and Astronomy
Record Identifier: 9984428802502771

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