Performance of resistive plate counter with non-ozone depletion freon

Author

Sanpei, M. ; Abe, K. ; Hoshi, Y. ; Ichinose, M. ; Kawamura, N. ; Kawasaki, H. ; Nagamine, T. ; Nakajima, T. ; Nanba, K. ; Neich, K. ; Takayama, T. ; Yamada, M. ; Yamaga, M. ; Yamaguchi, A. ; Yuta, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Phys., Tohoku Gakuin Univ., Tagajo, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

2-9 Nov 1996

Firstpage

595

Abstract

The standard gas mixture (Ar/isoC₄H₁₀/CF₃Br) used for RPCs contains several percent of CF₃Br (Haron1301) as quenching agent. CF₃Br is known to destroy the atmospheric ozone layer. For this reason its use is discouraged, and prohibited by law in the near future. C₂F₆ (FC116) and C₂H₂F₄ (HFC134A) seem to be an ideal candidate from an environment point of view since its ozone depletion potential is very low. We present the results of a test performance on RPC (glass) operating with non-ozone depletion freon gas and butane-silver

Keywords

ionisation chambers; position sensitive particle detectors; streamer chambers; FC116; HFC134A; Haron1301; RPC; butane-Ag; glass; nonozone depletion freon; quenching agent; resistive plate counter performance; standard gas mixture; test performance; Costs; Counting circuits; Dark current; Detectors; Electrodes; Gases; Glass; Mesons; Physics; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium, 1996. Conference Record., 1996 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3534-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1996.591070

Filename

591070