The Resistive-Plate WELL with Argon mixtures – A robust gaseous radiation detector

Luca Moleri; Fernando Domingues Amaro; Lior Arazi; Carlos Davide Rocha Azevedo; Eraldo Oliveri; Michael Pitt; Jana Schaarschmidt; Dan Shaked-Renous; Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos; João Filipe Calapez de Albuquerque Veloso; Amos Breskin; Shikma Bressler

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.06.009

The Resistive-Plate WELL with Argon mixtures – A robust gaseous radiation detector

Luca Moleri, Fernando Domingues Amaro, Lior Arazi, Carlos Davide Rocha Azevedo, Eraldo Oliveri, Michael Pitt, Jana Schaarschmidt, Dan Shaked-Renous, Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos, João Filipe Calapez de Albuquerque Veloso, Amos Breskin, Shikma Bressler

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A thin single-element THGEM-based, Resistive-Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector was operated with 150 GeV/c muon and pion beams in Ne/(5%CH₄), Ar/(5%CH₄) and Ar/(7%CO₂); signals were recorded with 1 cm² square pads and SRS/APV25 electronics. Detection efficiency values greater than 98% were reached in all the gas mixtures, at average pad multiplicity of 1.2. The use of the 10⁹ Ω cm resistive plate resulted in a completely discharge-free operation also in intense pion beams. The efficiency remained essentially constant at 98–99% up to fluxes of ∼10⁴ Hz/cm², dropping by a few % when approaching 10⁵ Hz/cm². These results pave the way towards cost-effective, robust, efficient, large-scale detectors for a variety of applications in future particle, astro-particle and applied fields. A potential target application is digital hadron calorimetry.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	262-265
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	845
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.06.009
State	Published - 11 Feb 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Calorimetery
Micropattern Gaseous detectors
THGEM

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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Moleri, L., Amaro, F. D., Arazi, L., Azevedo, C. D. R., Oliveri, E., Pitt, M., Schaarschmidt, J., Shaked-Renous, D., dos Santos, J. M. F., Veloso, J. F. C. D. A., Breskin, A., & Bressler, S. (2017). The Resistive-Plate WELL with Argon mixtures – A robust gaseous radiation detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 845, 262-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.06.009

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The Resistive-Plate WELL with Argon mixtures – A robust gaseous radiation detector. / Moleri, Luca; Amaro, Fernando Domingues; Arazi, Lior et al.
In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 845, 11.02.2017, p. 262-265.

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