The RPC with very thin material budget using MPGD technology has been developed for MEG- II experiment; muon to positron + gamma rare decay experiment. To improve the background rejection, low energy (< a few MeV) positrons coming from radiative decay should be detected under intense muon beam (around 4 x 106 muons per unit cm2) penetrating in the detector. Very small material budget (<0.001 x...
The Surface Resistive Plate Counter (sRPC) is a novel RPC based on surface resistivity electrodes, a completely different concept with respect to traditional RPCs that use electrodes characterized by volume resistivity. The electrodes of the sRPC exploit the well-established industrial Diamond-Like-Carbon (DLC) sputtering technology on thin (50μm) polyimide foils, already introduced in the...
The uninterrupted advancements of modelling and simulation tools, such as Garfield++, has guided the widespread development and understanding of particle detector technologies. Since novel detector structures are proposed regularly, with resistive detectors becoming an ever-increasing fraction of these, it is vital to reflect this progress in the capabilities of the modelling tools. This talk...
The long baseline neutrino experiment T2K will upgrade its near detector (ND280) next year to reduce the systematic uncertainty to less than 4% by adding an active highly segmented neutrino target (Super Fine Grained Detector) surrounded by two new gaseous Time Projection Chambers (High-Angle TPCs) and a 4p TOF veto. The required performances of these TPCs for momentum measurement and particle...
"Large volume Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chambers (TPC) are the technology of choice to study the elusive nature of neutrinos and to search for dark matter (DM) particles. Within the volume of noble liquid, neutrino or DM interactions produce prompt scintillation light and ionization electrons. The former is readout using UV light sensors while the latter are drifted under the...
