Temperature effect on RPC performance in the ARGO-YBJ experiment

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Temperature effect on RPC performance in the ARGO-YBJ experiment

Piero Vallania F. R. Zhu M. Panareo M. Zha X. Y. Zhang Zhaxisangzhu Minghui Liu H. W. Wang Q. Q. Zhu Paolo Camarri L. Perrone X. J. Bi P. Creti I. James I. De Mitri Haifeng Li Zhenyong Feng S. Z. Chen H. M. Zhang G. Di Sciascio M. De Vincenzi A. F. Yuan A. Surdo C. Liu J. Y. Li Jilong Zhang Huihai He Giulio Aielli C. Y. Wu Y. X. Yan P. Galeotti X. R. Meng C. Stanescu Hongbo Hu H. Y. Jia B. Bartoli S. W. Cui Xc Yang Zhaoyang Feng C. Bacci B. Z. Dai F. Ruggieri L. Saggese B. D'ettorre Piazzoli R. Gargana Labaciren Yicheng Guo J. K. K. Liu M. Iacovacci A. Budano P. Branchini Xinyue Zhou T. Di Girolamo S. Mastroianni G. D'alí Staiti P. Celio H. R. Wu X. X. Li L. Xue B. Liberti Stefano Maria Mari C.c. Ning X.h. Ma Giovanni Mancarella C. X. Liu Bo Wang R. Santonico Jianli Zhang Y. H. Zhang P. R. Shen Cunfeng Feng Bingwei Xu Severino Angelo Maria Bussino Q. B. Gou N. Cheng H. Lu Danzengluobu E. Rossi Paolo Montini R. Iuppa S. Vernetto F. Galeazzi C. Cattaneo A. Cappa P. Zhang M. Dattoli P. Salvini Zhengguo Cao Q. Huang F. Shi Q. Y. Yang G. Zizzi L. Zhang S. Catalanotti P. Bernardini A. K. Calabrese Melcarne R. Cardarelli G. Marsella X. B. Qu X. H. Ding X. D. Sheng Y. H. Tan Y. B. Chen A. Pagliaro P. Pistilli Carlo Vigorito Haibing Hu C. Bleve D. Martello G. Liguori

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Cosmic ray Efficiency telescope law.invention Telescope Optics law Angular resolution Operating voltage time resolution Instrumentation Argo Physics Muon business.industry Detector Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Time resolution Time resolution Cosmic Ray Telescope efficiency RPC High Energy Physics::Experiment business

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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 7.2kV, the temperature effect on the RPC time resolution is about 0.04ns/degrees C and on the particle detection efficiency is about 0.03%/degrees C. Based on these figures we conclude that the environmental effects do not affect substantially the angular resolution of the ARGO-YBJ detector. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2009-01-01

10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.020 http://hdl.handle.net/2318/155595