Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Santonico, Rinaldo

Titel

The RPC in the astroparticle physics of the next future

Ist Teil von

• Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2024-06, Vol.1063, p.169193, Article 169193

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Following the brilliant results of the ARGO-YBJ experiment (Tibet, 4300 m asl), this paper intends to investigate how to optimize the potential of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) for detecting cosmic-ray showers. This requires improving parameters like construction simplicity, low cost, and working reliability in hostile environments, rather than high-rate capability and time resolution as required in collider experiments. RPCs are particularly suitable for the detection of very low energy showers, as shown by ARGO-YBJ. An example of RPC detector, conceived for cosmic-ray physics and gamma-ray astronomy, particularly Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) observation, will be shown. This is of great interest in view of a large-size cosmic-shower detector to be installed in the Southern hemisphere.