STUDY OF RESISTIVE PLATE CHAMBERS FOR MUON DETECTION AT HADRON COLLIDERS

Authors
BENCZE GL BENICHOU JL DELLANEGRA M EGGERT K HERVE A PEACH D RADERMACHER E SEEZ C WAURICK G WROCHNA G BACCI C CERADINI F CIAPETTI G LACAVA F MARGUTTI G NISATI A PETROLO E PONTECORVO L TUSI A VENEZIANO S ZANELLO L CARDARELLI R DICIACCIO A SANTONICO R ANDLINGER M SZONCSO F WALZEL G WULZ CE
Citation
Gl. Bencze et al., STUDY OF RESISTIVE PLATE CHAMBERS FOR MUON DETECTION AT HADRON COLLIDERS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 340(3), 1994, pp. 466-473
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
340
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
466 - 473
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1994)340:3<466:SORPCF>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We present the performane of a hodoscope made of resistive plate chamb ers (RPC) installed in the RD5 experiment at CERN and exposed to beams of high energy muons and pions. The efficiency as a function of the p article flux is studied for different resistivities. A substantial imp rovement is obtained with plates of lower resistivity. Tracking muons through the RPC and using the bending power of a 2.7 Tm iron toroid, a simple trigger algorithm is used to select large momentum muons.