Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8177759 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) collaboration is planning to build a magnetised Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector to study atmospheric neutrinos and to measure their oscillation parameters. The ICAL will use 50Â kton iron as target mass and about 28,800 Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) of 2Ã2Â m2 in area as active detector elements. As part of its R&D programme, a stack of 12 glass RPCs of 1Ã1Â m2 in area has been set up to study and characterise the performance of the RPCs. In this paper, we describe our study on the optimisation of gas flow through the RPCs. We conclude that the refreshing frequency of gas can be reduced by a factor of 30 with leak free RPCs, without compromising performance of the RPCs.
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Authors
M.R. Bhuyan, S.D. Kalmani, N.K. Mondal, S. Pal, D. Samuel, B. Satyanarayana, R.R. Shinde,