• Title of article

    The HARP resistive plate chambers: Characteristics and physics performance

  • Author/Authors

    Ammosov، نويسنده , , V. and Boyko، نويسنده , , I. and Chelkov، نويسنده , , G. and Dedovitch، نويسنده , , D. and Dydak، نويسنده , , F. and Elagin، نويسنده , , A. and Gapienko، نويسنده , , V. and Gostkin، نويسنده , , M. and Guskov، نويسنده , , A. and Koreshev، نويسنده , , V. and Kroumchtein، نويسنده , , Z. and Nefedov، نويسنده , , Yu. V. Nikolaev، نويسنده , , K. and Semak، نويسنده , , A. and Sviridov، نويسنده , , Yu. and Usenko، نويسنده , , E. ، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    639
  • To page
    643
  • Abstract
    The HARP resistive plate chamber (RPC) system was designed for time-of-flight measurement in the large-angle acceptance region of the HARP spectrometer. It comprised 46 four-gap glass RPCs covering an area of 8 m 2 . The design of the RPCs, their operation, intrinsic properties, and system performance are described. The intrinsic time resolution of the RPCs is 127 ps leading to a system time-of-flight resolution of 175 ps. It is argued that gross differences between pion and proton timing in multi-gap timing RPCs, reported recently in the literature, do not exist.
  • Keywords
    Harp , Gaseous detectors , Resistive plate chambers , RPC
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2025147