Title of article
First results from an aging test of a prototype RPC for the LHCb Muon System
Author/Authors
Bizzeti، نويسنده , , A. and Carboni، نويسنده , , Maria G. and Collazuol، نويسنده , , G. and De Capua، نويسنده , , S. and Domenici، نويسنده , , D. and Ganis، نويسنده , , G. and Messi، نويسنده , , R. and Passaleva، نويسنده , , G. and Santovetti، نويسنده , , E. P. Veltri، نويسنده , , M.، نويسنده ,
Pages
6
From page
348
To page
353
Abstract
Recent results of an aging test performed at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility on a single-gap RPC prototype developed for the LHCb Muon System are presented. The results are based on an accumulated charge of about 0.45 C/cm2, corresponding to about 4 years of LHCb running at the highest background rate. The performance of the chamber has been studied, under several photon flux values, exploiting a muon beam. A degradation of the rate capability above 1 kHz/cm2 is observed, which can be correlated to a sizeable increase of resistivity of the chamber plates. An increase of the chamber dark current is also observed. The chamber performance is found to fulfill the LHCb operation requirements.
Keywords
RPC , resistivity , LHCB , aging
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Record number
2021946
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