Journal article
Environmental dependence of the performance of resistive plate chambers
Journal of instrumentation, Vol.5(2), pp.P02007-P02007
02/01/2010
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/5/02/P02007
Abstract
This paper reports on the performance of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as function of the gas flow rate through the chambers and of environmental conditions, such as atmospheric pressure, ambient temperature and air humidity. The chambers are read out by pads with an area of 1 x 1 cm(2) and 1-bit resolution per pad (binary readout). The performance measures include the noise rate as well as the detection efficiency and pad multiplicity for cosmic rays. The measurements extended over a period of almost one year and are sensitive to possible long-term aging effects.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Environmental dependence of the performance of resistive plate chambers
- Creators
- Q. Zhang - Argonne National LaboratoryB. Bilki - University of IowaJ. Butler - Boston UniversityE. May - Argonne National LaboratoryG. Mavromanolakis - Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryE. Norbeck - University of IowaJ. Repond - Argonne National LaboratoryD. Underwood - Argonne National LaboratoryL. Xia - Argonne National Laboratory
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of instrumentation, Vol.5(2), pp.P02007-P02007
- DOI
- 10.1088/1748-0221/5/02/P02007
- ISSN
- 1748-0221
- eISSN
- 1748-0221
- Publisher
- Iop Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 14
- Grant note
- DE-AC02-06CH11357 / U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory; United States Department of Energy (DOE) ST/H001093/2 / Science and Technology Facilities Council; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/2010
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984627198802771
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