Environmental Dependence of the Performance of Resistive Plate Chambers
Burak Bilki, John Butler, Ed May, Georgios Mavromanolakis, Edwin, Norbeck, Jose Repond, David Underwood, Lei Xia, Qingmin Zhang
TL;DR
This study investigates how environmental factors like pressure, temperature, and humidity affect the performance of Resistive Plate Chambers over nearly a year, focusing on noise, efficiency, and aging effects.
Contribution
It provides detailed analysis of RPC performance dependence on environmental conditions and gas flow, including long-term aging insights.
Findings
Performance varies with environmental conditions
Detection efficiency remains stable over time
Long-term aging effects are observed
Abstract
This paper reports on the performance of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as function of the gas flow rate through the chambers and of environmental conditions, such as atmospheric pressure, ambient temperature and air humidity. The chambers are read out by pads with an area of 1 x 1 cm2 and a 1-bit resolution per pad. The performance measures include the noise rate as well as the detection efficiency and pad multiplicity for cosmic rays. The measurements extended over a period of almost one year and are sensitive to possible long-term aging effects.
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