Resistive gaseous detectors : designs, performance, and perspectives /: designs, performance, and perspectives. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marcello Abbrescia, Paulo Fonte, Vladimir Peskov.
• Authors: Abbrescia, Marcello; Fonte, Paulo; Peskov, Vladimir
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 622.159; Gas detectors; Radiation -- Measurement -- Instruments; Nuclear counters; Particles (Nuclear physics)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783527698707; 9783527698721; 9783527698714
• Related ISBNs: 9783527340767
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