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- For many applications of RPCs to time-of-flight counters in heavy ion experiments the expansion to much higher values of the counting rate capability, so far limited to around 2 kHz/cm(2) is of fundamental importance. To address this issue we developed single-gap timing RPCs with resistive electrodes made from a commercially available plastic material. Tests performed in photon beams yielded a time resolution around 90 ps sigma, essentially unchanged from 2 kHz/ cm(2) to 27 kHZ/cm(2). This result establishes the basic feasibility of timing measurements with RPCs at rates of tens of kHZ/cm(2), keeping a time resolution below 100 ps a and using plastic electrode materials.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Atom- och molekylfysik och optik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics (hsv//eng)
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- RPC
- TOF
- high-rate
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