Study of Performance of Bakelite Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC)

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the performance of bakelite Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs), including small-scale tests and the development of large-sized detectors, highlighting their potential for high-resolution particle detection.

Contribution

It reports on the testing of a bakelite RPC sample and details the development process of a large-sized RPC at VECC.

Findings

Successful cosmic ray testing of a small RPC sample

Development steps for a large RPC of 240 cm x 120 cm

Potential for high-resolution particle detection

Abstract

Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is a type of gaseous detector having excellent time and position resolutions. VECC is involved in the R\&D of indigenously developed bakelite RPCs. The largest size of bakelite RPC developed in India is 100 cm $\times$ 100 cm. We present here the test results of a bakelite sample along with the cosmic ray test results of a bakelite RPC (30 cm $\times$ 30 cm $\times$ 0.2cm) fabricated at VECC. The steps taken towards the development of a large size (240 cm $\times$ 120 cm $\times$ 0.2 cm) bakelite RPC have also been discussed.