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Measurements of the Rate Capability of Various Resistive Plate Chambers (1507.06968v2)
Published 24 Jul 2015 in physics.ins-det
Abstract: Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) exhibit a significant loss of efficiency for the detection of particles, when subjected to high particle fluxes. This rate limitation is related to the usually high resistivity of the resistive plates used in their construction. This paper reports on measurements of the performance of three different glass RPC designs featuring a different total resistance of the resistive plates. The measurements were performed with 120 GeV protons at varying beam intensities