X. Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors

The Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) concept for time of flight positron emission tomography (RPC-PET) is based on the converter-plate gamma detection principle and takes advantage of the naturally layered structure of RPCs, of its simple and economic construction, excellent time resolution and very good intrinsic position accuracy. These characteristics may be of interest for the detailed...

Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber(MRPC), which is first developed in high energy physics experiments with excellent time discrimination, is also highlighted in imaging applications. In our lab a set of 50cm×50cm MRPCs were successfully developed and several experiments have been done to test the performance. Cosmic ray muons were used and proper high voltage and operating gas were chosen. Data...

Recently developed micropattern gaseous detectors offer high position resolution, excellent rate characteristics and good time resolutions. However the fine structure of their metallic electrodes makes them very fragile and easily destroyable by occasional sparks. Our presentation will consist from two parts. In the first one we will review the latest efforts made from various groups to...

We report on the development of a Digital Hadron Calorimeter (DHCAL), built with Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) and 1 x 1 cm^2 readout pads as the active medium, for use in a detector optimized for the application of Particle Flow Algorithms to the measurement of jet energies. We present the concept and design of a DHCAL and report on the progress in constructing a prototype DHCAL which is...

In the context of developing a hadron calorimeter with extremely fine granularity (for the application of Particle Flow Algorithms to the measurement of jet energies at a future lepton collider), we report on extensive tests of a small scale prototype calorimeter. The calorimeter contained up to 10 layers of Resistive Plate Chambers with 2560 1 x 1 cm^2 readout pads, interleaved with absorber...

Recent progress in the production of high-quality ‘electronic grade’ diamond materials by Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) processes enables the development of timing detectors for charged particles of unprecedented time resolution and rate capability. We present the characteristic properties of the three most relevant undoped diamond types for detector applications, which are single crystal...