Resistive gaseous detectors : designs, performance, and perspectives /
This critical summary for experts fills the gap between the rapid developments in the field and their simple and analytical descriptions. The experienced international team of authors adopts a didactic approach, with each subject gradually increasing in complexity.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Hoboken, NJ?] :
Wiley-VCH,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- INTRODUCTION; Main feature of gaseous detectors with resistive electrodes-spark quenching; ; HISTORY OF GASEOUS DETECTORS WITH RESISTIVE ELECTRODES; Iarrocci streamer tubes; Multi-wire proportional counters with resistive electrodes; Pestov RPC; Santonico RPC; Timing RPC; Multigap RPCs; High position resolution RPCs; ; SINGLE LAYER RPCs; Features of single layer RPCs: designs, construction features, oil treatment and operation; Physics of spark protection; Spark and streamer modes; Signal developments and position information; Time resolution; Choice of gases and resistive materials; ; DOUBLE LAYER RPCs; Designs, construction features, materials; Dark current, noise pulses; Choice of resistive materials (melamine, Bakelite,
- Glass); Rate characteristics; Gases and gas systems; ; RECENT DEVELOPMENTS; Basic principle of multilayer RPCs operation; Time resolution; Space charge effect; Noise pulses; High rate RPCs; Materials; Chinese /; Pestov glass ceramics; High position resolution RPCs; ; RPC OPERATION IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS; L3 experiment; SLAC BaBar RPCs, problems and solutions; LHC: CMS, ATLAS, ALICE experiments; Gain monitoring and stability; HADES-TOF; ; ASTROPHYSICS EXPERIMENTS; OPERA detector; ARGO experiment; Extreme energy and others large-scale experiments; ; UPGRADE DETECTORS; NEW EXPERIMENTS; LHC detectors upgrades; BESIII-ETOF upgrade; BGO-EGG at LEPS2; SBN-TOF; R3B-FAIR; ; NEW DEVELOPMENTS; Hybrid designs: Paulo detectors, high pos. resol.
- Detectors for CMS; Micro-pattern detectors with resistive electrodes; ; APPLICATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES; RPC for time of flight PET; Resistive MICROMEGAS in ATLAS; Neutrons detection; Imaging calorimetry-DHCAL; Homeland security-muon tomography; Mammographic scanner; Prototypes of Rn and Po detectors; Prototypes of flame and spark detectors; ; CONCLUSIONS; The place of RPCs among present alternative detectors and perspectives.
