RPCs
Applications of Timing Resistive Plate Chambers - RPC
- Started on: 2002-04-01
- Field area: Detectors
- Cientific coordenator: Paulo Fonte
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Neste projecto pretendemos desenvolver uma tecnologia de detecção de partículas elementares denominada “Câmaras de Placas Resistivas”. Estes detectores têm aplicação em experiências de Física das Partículas e estamos a desenvolver também aplicações na Imagiologia de Radioisótopos.
past studies
Collaboration on the CBM experiment at GSI was continued, mostly within the framework of the EU FP6 project I3HP.
Several possibilities for the continuation of large-scale detector implementation in HEP beyond HADES were investigated. Besides our present involvement on the CBM experiment, which may be re-evaluated in the future, contacts were made with the experiments PANDA and R3B at GSI with generally positive results. However, our present intense involvement on the HADES and HUMAN PET projects excludes any real progress in this area. Unfortunately there are no perspectives for involvement in CERN experiments.
In the framework of an informal collaboration with the Instituto de Pesquisa Energéticas e Nucleares, São Paulo, Brasil, we received the visit of the Brasilian researchers Carmen Tobias and Suzana Botelho from “Intituto de Pesquisa Nuclear (IPEN)”. A technique for accurate measurement of the electrons drift velocity and effective gas multiplication coefficient in very high fields has been developed. This line of research continues now in São Paulo, Brasil. The LIP researcher Alessio Mangiarotti was invited to spend 3 months at IPEN and elaborated detailed calculations necessary for theoretical support of the project.
Participation in the RPC2007 workshop in Mumbai, India, was a major highlight of the year. LIP was involved on the presentation of 4 talks and 2 poster
plans for the future
We plan to continue the three established lines of work: gas swarm parameters and avalanche physics, ceramic high-rate timing RPCs and RPC ageing studies. A project was approved by FCT call by “Projects in collaboration with CERN 2007” and the first financial advancement received in November 2007. Owing to this fact an extension of the project was requested until December 2008.
