Speaker
Lei Xia
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Description
Traditionally RPCs use either Bakelite or glass as resistive plates.
Compared with other Micro-pattern gas detectors, RPCs are known to
suffer from rate limitations. The rate capability of the devices is
defined by the signal size, bulk resistivity of the resistive electrode
and the thickness of the electrode. We report on efforts to develop
low-resistivity Bakelite and glass, as well as efforts to develop a
new electrode material that has very thin effective thickness. We will
present first results from tests of high-rate RPCs performed at the
GIF facility at CERN, the Fermilab test beam facility and elsewhere.
Primary author
Lei Xia
(Argonne National Laboratory)
