High-rate glass resistive plate chambers for LHC muon detectors upgrade

Author

Laktineh, I. ; Caponetto, L. ; Cauwenbergh, S. ; Combret, C. ; Crotty, I. ; Haddad, Yoram ; Grenier, G. ; Guida, Raffaella ; Kieffer, R. ; Lumb, N. ; Mirabito, L. ; Schirra, F. ; Seguin, N. ; Tytgat, Maarten ; Van der Donckt, M. ; Wang, Yannan ; Zaganidis

Author_Institution

IPNL, Univ. de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 27 2012-Nov. 3 2012

Firstpage

1934

Lastpage

1936

Abstract

The limitation of the detection rate of standard bakelite resistive plate chambers (RPC) used as muon detector in LHC experiments is behind the absence of such detectors in the high η regions in both CMS and ATLAS detectors. RPCs made with low resistivity glass plates (10¹⁰ Ω.cm) could be an adequate solution to equip the high TJ regions extending thus both the trigger efficiency and the physics performance. Different beam tests with single and multi-gap configurations using the new glass have shown that such detectors can operate at few thousands Hzlcm² with high efficiency(>90%).

Keywords

muon detection; position sensitive particle detectors; ATLAS detectors; CMS detectors; LHC experiments; LHC muon detectors upgrade; bakelite resistive plate chambers; beam tests; detection rate; high-rate glass resistive plate chambers; multigap configurations; trigger efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2028-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551446

Filename

6551446