Small-Area Portable Resistive Plate Chambers for Muography

  • Amrutha Samalan Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  • Samip Basnet Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Eduardo Cortina Gil Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Pavel Demin Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Ishan Darshana Gamage Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Andrea Giammanco Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Raveendrababu Karnam Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Centre for Medical and Radiation Physics (CMRP), National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar, India
  • Vishal Kumar Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Marwa Al Moussawi Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Michael Tytgat Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Physics Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
  • Ayman Youssef Multi-Disciplinary Physics Laboratory, Optics and Fiber Optics Group, Faculty of Sciences, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31526/jais.2024.489
Keywords: muon radiography, particle detectors, gaseous detectors, resistive plate chambers

Abstract

Muography is finding applications in various domains such as volcanology, archaeology, civil engineering,
industry, mining, and nuclear waste surveys. To simplify transportation and installation in remote
locations after laboratory testing, a fully portable and autonomous muon telescope based on Resistive
Plate Chambers (RPCs) is being developed. Two glass-RPC prototypes have been created, sharing the
same design goals but with different detector parameters, and comparative studies are ongoing. Drawing
from prototype experience, a double-gap RPC with advanced features and improved spatial resolution is
constructed. Resistive electrodes are produced manually, and a new data acquisition board is currently undergoing calibration. The results on prototype performance, readout board comparisons and the technical
progress on the double-gap RPC are presented.

Published
2024-06-24
How to Cite
[1]
A. Samalan, “Small-Area Portable Resistive Plate Chambers for Muography”, Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in Science, vol. 2024, no. 1, Jun. 2024.
Issue
Volume 2024
Section
International Workshop on Cosmic-Ray Muography (Muography2023), Naples, Italy

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