PERFORMANCE OF RESISTIVE PLATE COUNTER WITH NON-OZONE DEPLETION FREON

Authors
SANPEI M ABE K HOSHI Y ICHINOSE M KAWAMURA N KAWASAKI H NAGAMINE T NAKAJIMA T NANBA K NEICHI K TAKAYAMA T YAMADA M YAMAGA M YAMAGUCHI A YUTA H
Citation
M. Sanpei et al., PERFORMANCE OF RESISTIVE PLATE COUNTER WITH NON-OZONE DEPLETION FREON, IEEE transactions on nuclear science, 44(3), 1997, pp. 752-756
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on nuclear science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189499
Volume
44
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Part
1
Pages
752 - 756
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9499(1997)44:3<752:PORPCW>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
The standard gas mixture used for RPCs contains similar to 60% Ar, sim ilar to 40% isoC(4)H(10) and several percent of CF3Br(Haron1301) as qu enching agent. CF3Br is known to destroy the atmospheric ozone layer. For this reason its use is discouraged, and prohibited by law in the n ear future. C2F6(FC11G) and C2H2F4(HFC134A) seem to be an ideal candid ate from an environment point of view since its ozone depletion potent ial is very low. We present the results of a test performance on RPC(g lass) operating with non-ozone depletion freon gas and butane-silver.