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标题：Study of RPCs for autonomous stations in cosmic ray research
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作者：L. LOPES ; P. Fonte ; M. Pimenta 等
期刊名称：PoS - Proceedings of Science
印刷版ISSN：1824-8039
出版年度：2012
卷号：2012
出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：The capability of covering very large areas at low cost, besides showing excellent performance in many aspects, motivated the application of RPCs to Nuclear and High Energy Physics and also to Cosmic Ray research in experiments such as COVER-PLASTEX and ARGO/YBJ. Such detectors, however, require indoor conditions and support systems. For very high energy cosmic ray research, where shower sampling is mandatory, it would be convenient to develop detectors that could be deployed in small standalone stations, with very sparse opportunities for maintenance, and with good resilience to environmental conditions. With this aim we developed glass RPCs that are confined to a sealed plastic box housing all high voltage and gas distribution. The detector is impervious to humidity and requires only 0.4 cc/min of gas flow rate, equivalent to 1 kg/year of R-134a. Arbitrary readout electrodes can be applied externally.