Development and study of Glass Resistive Plate 玻璃电阻板的发展与研究.pptVIP

Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2004 XVI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics symposium, SINP, Kolkata, Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2004 Results from development ofGlass RPCs for INO detector B.Satyanarayana (For INO Collaboration) TIFR, Mumbai Plan of the presentation Introduction Principle of operation of a glass RPC Overview of the field Our prototype designs and fabrication RPC gas mixtures and gas system Cosmic ray muon telescope Data acquisition system Preliminary results RPC aging problem Future work plan Introduction Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles of matter. Electrically neutral and were initially thought to be mass less. Three types or flavors (ne,nm,nt) of neutrinos known. Recent evidence indicates that neutrinos have mass and also experience mixing among these flavors. Neutrino oscillations can explain the discrepancy between theory and observations about its flux; can be used to estimate its mass. Pioneering experiments at the KGF underground laboratories. Formation of Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) collaboration. Feasibility studies for setting up of a neutrino experiment in India is in progress. Proposed INO detector Principle of operation of a RPC Our prototype designs: Single gap Our prototype designs: Double gap Jigs for RPC fabrication Gas mixing and flow control unit Schematic of Cosmic ray muon trigger Cosmic ray muon telescope setup Schematic of data acquisition system Data acquisition system electronics V-I characteristics Typical RPC pulse profile Noise rate and efficiencies Charge performance Timing performance Charge-time linearity RPC aging problem Drop in efficiency, increase in noise rate and chamber current seen after a few weeks of continuous operation Reports in the literature (Monolith, Belle etc) Moister contamination in Freon gas, the culprit? Use of SF6 instead of Freon preferred Controlled humidity test AFM images of damaged electrodes SEM image of damaged electrode Future work plan Systematic study of RPC stability problem Fabr