Exploring eco-friendly gas mixtures for resistive plate chambers: A comprehensive study on performance and aging
Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are gaseous detectors widely used in high energy physics experiments, operating with a gas mixture primarily containing Tetrafluoroethane (C 2 H 2 F 4 ), commonly known as R-134a, which has a global warming potential (GWP) of 1430. To comply with European regulations, the RPC EcoGas@GIF++ collaboration, involving ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb/SHiP, and EP-DT communities, has undertaken intensive R&D efforts to explore new environmentally friendly alternative gas mixtures for RPC technology. A leading alternative under investigation is HFO1234ze, boasting a low GWP of 6 and demonstrating reasonable performance compared to R-134a. Over the past few years, RPC detectors with slightly different characteristics and electronics have been studied using HFO and CO 2 -based gas mixtures at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility. An aging test campaign was launched in August 2022, and during the latest test beam in July 2023, all detector systems underwent evaluation. This contribution will report the results of the aging studies and the performance evaluations of the detectors with and without irradiation.
Authors
- G. Aielli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0573-8114)
- M. Gagliardi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6314-7419)
- R. Cardarelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4541-4189)
- M. Busato
- M. Romano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6609-7250)
- L. Congedo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4536-4644)
- E. Vercellin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9030-5347)
- D. Lucero Ramirez
- L. Quaglia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0793-8275)
- Baptiste Joly (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5579-3576)
- Gianluca Rigoletti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9152-7593)
- A. Di Ciaccio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8289-5183)
- L. Di Stante
- K. Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0808-4184)
- Marta F. Barroso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6477-8282)
- L. Pizzimento
- M. Sessa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1402-7525)
- P. Camarri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5732-5645)
- M. Verzeroli
- S. Simone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3631-8398)
- A. Ferretti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-5784)
- G. Iaselli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2546-5341)
- P. Salvini
- G. Galati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-3312)
- B. Mandelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4343-4613)
- E. Pastori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1696-8900)
- Livia Terlizzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4119-7228)
- L. Massa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3735-7762)
- G. Saviano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0203-3836)
- B. Liberti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-2851)
- M.C. Arena
- R. Guida (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-9672)
- P. Dupieux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0207-2871)
- F. Bordon
- S.A. Juks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5441-6458)
- D. Piccolo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5404-543X)
- S. Bianco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8300-4124)
- A. Rocchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3125-8333)
- A. Samalan
- Dayron Ramos
- G. Pugliese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5460-2638)
- G. Proto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3069-7297)
- R. Aly (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6808-1335)
- M. Tytgat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3990-2074)
- D. De Jesus Damião (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3769-1680)
- M. Abbrescia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8727-7544)
- S.P. Manen
- N. Zaganidis
- A. Bruni
- R. Santonico
- D. Boscherini
- J. Eysermans
- A. Pastore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5024-3495)
- S. Buontempo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9526-556X)
- M. De Serio
- L. Benussi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2363-8889)
- A. Polini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4986-6628)
Institutions
- University of Rome Tor Vergata (IT)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)
- Korea University (KR)
- Universidad Iberoamericana (MX)
- University of Pavia (IT)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Ghent University (BE)
- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna (IT)
- Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lyon (FR)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma I (IT)
- Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (FR)
- University of Turin (IT)
- University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CH)
- Polytechnic University of Bari (IT)
- Helwan University (EG)
- Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Published
- 2024-08-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.169747
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Green IT and Sustainability
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.63
Funders
- European Commission
- HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme