Report number
| arXiv:1603.04820 |
Title
| The Resistive-Plate WELL with Argon mixtures - a robust gaseous radiation detector |
Author(s)
|
Moleri, Luca (Weizmann Inst.) ; Amaro, Fernando Domingues (Coimbra U.) ; Arazi, Lior (Weizmann Inst.) ; Rocha Azevedo, Carlos Davide (Aveiro U.) ; Oliveri, Eraldo (CERN) ; Pitt, Michael (Weizmann Inst.) ; Schaarschmidt, Jana (Weizmann Inst.) ; Shaked-Renous, Dan (Weizmann Inst.) ; Marques Ferreira dos Santos, Joaquim (Coimbra U.) ; Veloso, Joao Filipe Calapez de Albuquerque (Aveiro U.) ; Breskin, Amos (Weizmann Inst.) ; Bressler, Shikma (Weizmann Inst.) Vis alle 12 forfattere |
Publication
| 2017-02-11 |
Imprint
| 15 Mar 2016 |
Number of pages
| 4 |
Note
| presented at the 2016 VIenna Conf. On instrumentation. Submitted to the Conference proceedings |
In:
| Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 845 (2017) pp.262-265 |
In:
| 14th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, Vienna, Austria, 15 - 19 Feb 2016, pp.262-265 |
DOI
| 10.1016/j.nima.2016.06.009
|
Subject category
| Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
Abstract
| A thin single-element THGEM-based, Resistive-Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector was operated with 150 GeV/c muon and pion beams in Ne/(5%CH4), Ar/(5%CH4) and Ar/(7%CO2); signals were recorded with 1 cm2 square pads and SRS/APV25 electronics. Detection efficiency values greater than 98% were reached in all the gas mixtures, at average pad multiplicity of 1.2. The use of the 109{\Omega}cm resistive plate resulted in a completely discharge-free operation also in intense pion beams. The efficiency remained essentially constant at 98-99% up to fluxes of ∼104Hz/cm2, dropping by a few % when approaching 105 Hz/cm2. These results pave the way towards cost-effective, robust, efficient, large-scale detectors for a variety of applications in future particle, astro-particle and applied fields. A potential target application is digital hadron calorimetry. |
Copyright/License
| arXiv nonexclusive-distrib. 1.0 publication: © 2016-2025 The Author(s) (License: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0) |