Assembly and characterization of gaseous particle detector: Resistive plate chambers

Charged particles are produced in huge amount in high energy and astro-particle physics experiments such as LHC experiments at CERN, Geneva and in proposed India Based Neutrino Observatory (INO). The identification and measurement of these charged particle set the physics achievable for these experiments. Resistive plate chambers (RPCs), the gaseous detectors which work on the principle of ionization produced in the gaseous medium by fast moving charged particles, are extensively used in detection of charged particles. A laboratory is set-up at Department of Physics, Panjab University for the fabrication and testing of RPC detectors. This paper present the assembly and characterization performance of the fabricated RPCs.