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Report number	arXiv:1607.02587
Title	In-beam evaluation of a medium-size Resistive-Plate WELL gaseous particle detector
Related title	In-beam evaluation of a medium-size Resistive-Plate WELL gaseous particle detector
Author(s)	Moleri, L. (Weizmann Inst.) ; Amaro, F.D. (Coimbra U.) ; Arazi, L. (Weizmann Inst.) ; Azevedo, C.D.R. (Aveiro U.) ; Breskin, A. (Weizmann Inst.) ; Coimbra, A.E.C. (Weizmann Inst.) ; Oliveri, E. (CERN) ; Pereira, F.A. (Aveiro U.) ; Renous, D. Shaked (Weizmann Inst.) ; Schaarschmidt, J. (Weizmann Inst.) ; dos Santos, J. M. F. (Coimbra U.) ; Veloso, J.F.C.A. (Aveiro U.) ; Bressler, S. (Weizmann Inst.)
Publication	2016-09-27
Imprint	09 Jul 2016
Number of pages	13
Note	Prepared for submission to JINST
In:	JINST 11 (2016) P09013
DOI	10.1088/1748-0221/11/09/P09013
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN SPS
Test beam	H2
Abstract	In-beam evaluation of a fully-equipped medium-size 30$\times$30 cm$^2$ Resistive Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector is presented. It consists here of a single element gas-avalanche multiplier with Semitron ESD225 resistive plate, 1 cm$^2$ readout pads and APV25/SRS electronics. Similarly to previous results with small detector prototypes, stable operation at high detection efficiency (>98%) and low average pad multiplicity ( 1.2) were recorded with 150 GeV muon and high-rate pion beams, in Ne/(5%CH$_4$), Ar/(5%CH$_4$) and Ar/(7%CO$_2$). This is an important step towards the realization of robust detectors suitable for applications requiring large-area coverage; among them Digital Hadron Calorimetry.
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