https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12545-8
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
High-rate tests on resistive plate chambers operated with eco-friendly gas mixtures
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Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Universitá of Bari, via Amendola 173, 70125, Bari, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
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Helwan University, Helwan Sharkeya, 4037120, Helwan, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
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Universitá degli studi di Pavia, Corso Strada Nuova 65, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, R. Sao Francisco Xavier, 524-Maracaná, 20550-013, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via Enrico Fermi 54, 00044, Frascati (Rome), Italy
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CERN, Espl. des Particules 1, 1211, Meyrin, Switzerland
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INFN Sezione di Bologna, Viale C. Berti Pichat 4/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo ed., 6, Via Cintia, 80126, Naples, Italy
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Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Clermont Universitè, Universitè Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, BP 10448, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli studi di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, 10126, Turin, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, 10126, Turin, Italy
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Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Politecnico di Bari, via Amendola 173, 70125, Bari, Italy
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Departiment of Physics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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Dept. de Fisica y Matematicas, Universidad Iberoamericana, 01210, Mexico City, Mexico
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Proeftuinstraat 86, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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INFN Sezione di Pavia, Via A. Bassi 6, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica Materiali Ambiente, Universitá di Roma “Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
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Department of Physics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB-ELEM), Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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Universitè Claude Bernard Lyon I, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69100, Villeurbanne, France
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marcello.abbrescia@ba.infn.it
Received:
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October
2023
Accepted:
8
February
2024
Published online:
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March
2024
Results obtained by the RPC ECOgas@GIF++ Collaboration, using Resistive Plate Chambers operated with new, eco-friendly gas mixtures, based on tetrafluoropropene and carbon dioxide, are shown and discussed in this paper. Tests aimed to assess the performance of this kind of detectors in high-irradiation conditions, analogous to the ones foreseen for the coming years at the Large Hadron Collider experiments, were performed, and demonstrate a performance basically similar to the one obtained with the gas mixtures currently in use, based on tetrafluoroethane, which is being progressively phased out for its possible contribution to the greenhouse effect. Long term aging tests are also being carried out, with the goal to demonstrate the possibility of using these eco-friendly gas mixtures during the whole High Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider.
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