Performance of thin-RPC detectors for high rate applications with eco-friendly gas mixtures

M. Abbrescia; G. Aielli; R. Aly; M. C. Arena; M. Barroso Ferreira Filho; L. Benussi; S. Bianco; F. Bordon; D. Boscherini; A. Bruni; S. Buontempo; M. Busato; P. Camarri; R. Cardarelli; L. Congedo; M. De Serio; A. Di Ciaccio; L. Di Stante; P. Dupieux; J. Eysermans; A. Ferretti; G. Galati; M. Gagliardi; R. Guida; G. Iaselli; B. Joly; K. S. Lee; B. Liberti; B. Mandelli; S. P. Manen; A. Pastore; E. Pastori; D. Piccolo; L. Pizzimento; A. Polini; G. Proto; G. Pugliese; L. Quaglia; D. Ramos; G. Rigoletti; A. Rocchi; M. Romano; A. Samalan; P. Salvini; R. Santonico; G. Saviano; M. Sessa; S. Simone; L. Terlizzi; M. Tytgat; E. Vercellin; M. Verzeroli; N. Zaganidis

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12907-2

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Particles and Fields

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Eur. Phys. J. C (2024) 84: 605
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12907-2

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Performance of thin-RPC detectors for high rate applications with eco-friendly gas mixtures

RPC ECOGas@GIF++ Collaboration, M. Abbrescia¹^,2, G. Aielli⁴^,5, R. Aly¹^,6, M. C. Arena⁷, M. Barroso Ferreira Filho⁸, L. Benussi⁹, S. Bianco⁹, F. Bordon¹⁰, D. Boscherini¹¹, A. Bruni¹¹, S. Buontempo¹², M. Busato¹⁰, P. Camarri⁴^,5, R. Cardarelli⁴, L. Congedo¹, M. De Serio¹^,2, A. Di Ciaccio⁴^,5, L. Di Stante⁴^,5, P. Dupieux¹³, J. Eysermans¹⁴, A. Ferretti¹⁵^,16, G. Galati¹^,2^z, M. Gagliardi¹⁵^,16, R. Guida¹⁰, G. Iaselli¹^,3, B. Joly¹³, K. S. Lee¹⁷, B. Liberti⁴, B. Mandelli¹⁰, S. P. Manen¹³, A. Pastore¹^aj, E. Pastori⁴, D. Piccolo⁹, L. Pizzimento⁴, A. Polini¹¹, G. Proto⁴^,5, G. Pugliese¹^,3, L. Quaglia¹⁵, D. Ramos¹^,3, G. Rigoletti¹⁰, A. Rocchi⁴, M. Romano¹¹, A. Samalan¹⁹, P. Salvini²⁰, R. Santonico⁴^,5, G. Saviano²¹, M. Sessa⁴, S. Simone¹^,2, L. Terlizzi¹⁵^,16, M. Tytgat¹⁹^,22, E. Vercellin¹⁵^,16, M. Verzeroli¹⁰^,23 and N. Zaganidis¹⁸

¹ INFN Sezione di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
² Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Università of Bari, Via Amendola 173, 70125, Bari, Italy
³ Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Politecnico di Bari, Via Amendola 173, 70125, Bari, Italy
⁴ INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
⁵ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
⁶ Helwan University, Helwan Sharkeya, 4037120, Helwan, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
⁷ Università degli studi di Pavia, Corso Strada Nuova 65, 27100, Pavia, Italy
⁸ Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, R. Sao Francisco Xavier, 524-Maracaná, 20550-013, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
⁹ INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via Enrico Fermi 54, Frascati, 00044, Rome, Italy
¹⁰ CERN, Espl. des Particules 1, 1211, Meyrin, Switzerland
¹¹ INFN Sezione di Bologna, Viale C. Berti Pichat 4/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy
¹² INFN Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo ed. 6, Via Cintia, 80126, Naples, Italy
¹³ Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, BP 10448, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
¹⁴ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA
¹⁵ INFN Sezione di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, 10126, Turin, Italy
¹⁶ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli studi di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, 10126, Turin, Italy
¹⁷ Departiment of Physics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
¹⁸ Dept. de Fisica y Matematicas, Universidad Iberoamericana, 01210, Mexico City, Mexico
¹⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Proeftuinstraat 86, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
²⁰ INFN Sezione di Pavia, Via A. Bassi 6, 27100, Pavia, Italy
²¹ Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica Materiali Ambiente, Università di Roma Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
²² Department of Physics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB-ELEM), Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
²³ Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69100, Villeurbanne, France

^z giuliana.galati@ba.infn.it
^aj alessandra.pastore@ba.infn.it

Received: 29 January 2024
Accepted: 10 May 2024
Published online: 11 June 2024

Abstract

In the last few years, an intense R &D activity on particle detectors for future HEP applications has been carried on with the aim of developing new techniques as well as studying the performance of already existing detectors when operated in a high rate environment. As for Resistive Plate Chamber detectors, the main challenges to face are the improvement of their detection capabilities and longevity at very high-rates, and the search for new eco-friendly gasmixtures free from greenhouse components. Results obtained in the framework of the RPC ECOGas@GIF++ Collaboration on a thin-Resistive Plate Chamber exposed at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility and operated with eco-friendly gas mixtures based on Tetrafluoropropene and Carbon dioxide will be discussed in this paper.

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