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View SchemaFirst results from an aging test of a prototype RPC for the LHCb Muon System
| Authors | Andrea Bizzeti, Giovanni Carboni, Gianmaria Collazuol, Stefano De Capua, Danilo Domenici, Gerardo Ganis, Roberto Messi, Giovanni Passaleva, Emanuele Santovetti, Michele Veltri |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0302029 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0302029 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.nima.2003.09.022 |
| Journal | Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A515 (2003) 348-353 |
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/cm$^2$, 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/cm$^2$ 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.
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"Giovanni Passaleva",
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"title": "First results from an aging test of a prototype RPC for the LHCb Muon System",
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