Plastic scintillator-based hodoscope for the characterization of large-area resistive plate chambers

Pramana

A K MOHANTY¹  R SEHGAL²  L M PANT1²  V K S KASHYAP1 2²  C YADAV²  R G THOMAS²  S T SEHGAL² 

[1] Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata 700 064, India$$;Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India$$

关键词: Plastic scintillators;    resistive plate chambers.;   

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学科分类：物理（综合）

来源: Indian Academy of Sciences

【 摘 要 】

A scintillator-based hodoscope is fully operational at Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (NPD-BARC). It was used for characterizing the resistive plate chambers (RPCs) assembled for the RE4 upgrade for the compact muon solenoid (CMS) experiment, installed during the long shut-down (LS1) using cosmic muons. It has now been employed for R & D related to gas mixtures and glass RPCs for the Indiabased neutrino observatory (INO) and muon tomography studies. The hodoscope is equipped with gas flow lines,LV, HV and VME-based DAQ with multihit TDCs. CERN-based software was adapted, implemented and along with the cosmic trigger, was used to evaluate the functional parameters for the RPCs, such as efficiency, clustersize etc.

【 授权许可】

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