X. Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors

The ATLAS detector is now installed at CERN’s LHC and fully operational. RPCs provide the first-level muon trigger and the measurement of the non bending coordinate in the barrel region. To achieve these goals, a system of about 4000 gas gaps operating in avalanche mode was built (resulting in a total of ~ 350000 readout strips). Such a large-scale system allows the study of the performance...

The Resistive Plate Chambers are used in the CMS experiment as a dedicated muon trigger both in barrel and endcap system. About 4000 square meter of double gap RPCs have been produced and have been installed in the experiment since 2007. The full barrel system and a fraction of the endcaps have been extensively commisioned with milions of cosmic rays collected by the full CMS experiment....

The trigger for the ALICE muon spectrometer will be issued by 72 single-gap, low resistivity bakelite RPCs, arranged in two stations of two planes each. The area covered by one plane is 5.5x6.5 m2. In order to operate RPCs both in streamer and avalanche mode, two dierent gas mixtures have been developed. After installation in the ALICE experimental hall, the detectors have undergone a two...

The PHENIX experiment is located at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York. RHIC collides heavy ion beams at energies up to sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV and proton beams at energies up to sgrt(s) = 500 GeV. One of the major physics goals at RHIC is the exploration of the origin of proton spin. RHIC provides the unique capability of accelerating...