X. Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors

Next generation of experiments like CBM at FAIR will be confronted with the selection of rare probes in high multiplicity environment at collision rates up to 107 events/sec. Hadron identification in such a limiting environment is a real challenge and requires intensive R&D activity for developing high resolution and high granularity timing detectors at affordable cost. Recently, significant...

The Compressed Baryonic Matter spectrometer (CBM) is expected to be operational in year 2015 at the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. The spectrometer aims at systematically studying rare and bulk probes stemming from heavy ion reactions in the energy regime 2-90GeV, in order to precisely characterize the phase diagram of nuclear matter and eventual first...

RPCs in Multi-strip fashion are widely regarded as very convenient designs for covering large areas under low track multiplicities. It will be shown, from the perspective of Multi-gap structures and high accuracy timing, how the strip impedance, weighting field profile and cross-talk are very important limiting factors of this kind of designs. Comparison of avalanche simulations with published...

The NeuLAND detector at the R3B experiment at FAIR aims to detect fast neutrons (0.2-1.0GeV) with high time and spatial resolutions (sigma_t<100 ps, sigma_x,y,z<1 cm). The detector will consist of about 60 subsequent MRPC stacks containing a 4mm thick anode made of iron converter material, with an additional 4mm of converter material between two stacks. The secondary charged particles...

R3B, FAIR collaboration aims to measure four momentum vectors of kinematical complete reaction products from relativistic radioactive nuclei. To achieve energy resolution around 50 KeV (dE<50 KeV) for invariant mass of exotic nuclei above neutron threshold, a high energy neutron detector (1Gev<=En=>200MeV ) with very good timing resolution (Dt~100 ps) and position resolution (Dx, Dy, Dz ~1 cm)...

The detection setup of the R3B experiment in the FAIR facility includes time of flight (ToF) walls, dedicated to the isotopic identification of ions of any charge and mass at energies of some hundreds AMeVs. The experiments related to heavy ions require large active surfaces and a very demanding time resolution (<50 ps) for the ToF detectors in order to accomplish with their duties with...