Temperature effect on RPC performance in the ARGO-YBJ experiment

G Aielli,P Bernardini,P Galeotti,I De Mitri,P Branchini,H.J Li,Zhaxisangzhu Zhaxisangzhu,H.M Zhang,G Di Sciascio,J.Y Li,I James,R Cardarelli,P Zhang,L Xue,Labaciren Labaciren,F Galeazzi,P Salvini,C.Q Liu,B Bartoli,A Pagliaro,C Liu,R Gargana,R Iuppa,Haibing Hu,S Bussino,S.Z Chen,A Surdo,P Creti,M Zha,M Iacovacci,A Cappa,S Catalanotti,L Perrone,Danzengluobu Danzengluobu,J Liu,Y Zhang,Z Cao,Y Chen,B Liberti,G Zizzi,L Zhang,Hongbo Hu,S Vernetto,Jianli Zhang,A Budano,G Liguori,B D’Ettorre Piazzoli,B Wang,D Martello,R Santonico,S Mastroianni,C Bleve,X.X Li,M De Vincenzi,M.Y Liu,H Wang,P Pistilli,G Mancarella,E Rossi,C Bacci,P Vallania,G Marsella,P Montini,M Panareo,M Dattoli,L Saggese,T Di Girolamo,X.Y Zhang,P Camarri,F Ruggieri,Jilong Zhang,Q Huang,C Vigorito,Q Y Yang ,X R Meng ,Feng Shi ,A K Calabrese Melcarne ,H Lü ,P R Shen ,H H He ,X J Bi ,Y Q Guo ,F R Zhu ,X H Ding ,C Y Wu ,Y H Tan ,Y X Yan ,Benda Xu ,H Y Jia ,C Stănescu ,H R Wu ,X D Sheng ,Z Y Feng ,Z Feng ,Paola Celio ,B Z Dai ,G D’alí Staiti ,Q Q Zhu ,S W Cui ,Stefano Maria Mari ,C Feng ,X X Zhou ,A F Yuan ,Claudio Cattaneo ,C C Ning ,Q B Gou ,X B Qu ,Ning Cheng ,Xiaohua Ma ,X C Yang

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.020

Temperature effect on RPC performance in the ARGO-YBJ experiment

G Aielli, P Bernardini + Show 108 more

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.020

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Journal: Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A	Publication Date: Jul 24, 2009
Citations: 49

Affiliation: University of Rome Tor Vergata, INFN Sezione di Roma II, University of Salento, INFN Sezione di Lecce, Roma Tre University, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Tibet University, Institute of High Energy Physics, INFN Sezione di Napoli, INFN Sezione di Torino, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, National Institute for Astrophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, INFN Sezione di Pavia

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The ARGO-YBJ experiment has been taking data for nearly 2 years. In order to monitor continuously the performance of the Resistive Plate Chamber detectors and to study the daily temperature effects on the detector performance, a cosmic ray muon telescope was setup near the carpet detector array in the ARGO-YBJ laboratory. Based on the measurements performed using this telescope, it is found that, at the actual operating voltage of 7.2 kV, the temperature effect on the RPC time resolution is about 0.04 ns / ∘ C and on the particle detection efficiency is about 0.03 % / ∘ C . Based on these figures we conclude that the environmental effects do not affect substantially the angular resolution of the ARGO-YBJ detector.

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