Space-charge limitation of avalanche growth in narrow-gap resistive plate chambers

A big advance in resistive plate chamber technology happened in 1996 with the advent of the multigap resistive plate chamber (MRPC). The MRPC allows us to easily construct detectors with many small gas gaps and thus we obtain good timing together with high detection efficiency. Using this technology...

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Autor principal: Williams, M C S
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2004
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Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2004.03.055
http://cds.cern.ch/record/816806
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description A big advance in resistive plate chamber technology happened in 1996 with the advent of the multigap resistive plate chamber (MRPC). The MRPC allows us to easily construct detectors with many small gas gaps and thus we obtain good timing together with high detection efficiency. Using this technology, it is now common to build detectors with gas gaps of 200-300 mum in width. This paper examines space-charge limited avalanche growth; this becomes a dominant effect for narrow gap resistive plate chambers. This effect controls gas gain and explains the reason for the excellent behaviour of MRPCs built with this gas gap.
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spelling cern-8168062019-09-30T06:29:59Zdoi:10.1016/j.nima.2004.03.055http://cds.cern.ch/record/816806engWilliams, M C SSpace-charge limitation of avalanche growth in narrow-gap resistive plate chambersDetectors and Experimental TechniquesA big advance in resistive plate chamber technology happened in 1996 with the advent of the multigap resistive plate chamber (MRPC). The MRPC allows us to easily construct detectors with many small gas gaps and thus we obtain good timing together with high detection efficiency. Using this technology, it is now common to build detectors with gas gaps of 200-300 mum in width. This paper examines space-charge limited avalanche growth; this becomes a dominant effect for narrow gap resistive plate chambers. This effect controls gas gain and explains the reason for the excellent behaviour of MRPCs built with this gas gap.oai:cds.cern.ch:8168062004
spellingShingle Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Williams, M C S
Space-charge limitation of avalanche growth in narrow-gap resistive plate chambers
title Space-charge limitation of avalanche growth in narrow-gap resistive plate chambers
title_full Space-charge limitation of avalanche growth in narrow-gap resistive plate chambers
title_fullStr Space-charge limitation of avalanche growth in narrow-gap resistive plate chambers
title_full_unstemmed Space-charge limitation of avalanche growth in narrow-gap resistive plate chambers
title_short Space-charge limitation of avalanche growth in narrow-gap resistive plate chambers
title_sort space-charge limitation of avalanche growth in narrow-gap resistive plate chambers
topic Detectors and Experimental Techniques
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2004.03.055
http://cds.cern.ch/record/816806
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