Study of Streamer Development in Resistive Plate Chamber

TL;DR

This paper develops a simulation tool for Resistive Plate Chambers to analyze streamer development, aiming to optimize their operation mode and explore eco-friendly gas alternatives for neutrino detection.

Contribution

It introduces a hydrodynamic simulation model validated against experimental data to study streamer formation and device performance in different gas mixtures.

Findings

Simulation accurately reproduces experimental streamer development.

Potential to operate chambers in avalanche mode with eco-friendly gases.

Provides a versatile tool for optimizing RPC performance.

Abstract

This work has been carried out to simulate a Resistive Plate Chamber and corroborate it with experimental measurements in order to develop a numerical tool for studying the performance of the device for any gas mixture. This will allow us to explore the feasibility of operating these chambers in their avalanche mode within the Iron Calorimeter setup at India-based Neutrino Observatory with any eco-friendly substitute. The simulation has considered a hydrodynamic model of charge transport to emulate the electronic and ionic growths in the device as a function of the applied voltage which determines its working mode as either of the avalanche or streamer. In order to validate, the simulation result has been compared with compatible experimental data available in the literature.