Study of Performance of Bakelite Resistive Pate Chamber (RPC)

Abstract

Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) is a type of gaseous detector having excellent time and position resolutions. VECC is involved in the R&D of indigenously developed bakelite RPCs. The largest size of bakelite RPC developed in India is $100\,{\text {cm}} \times 100\,{\text {cm}}$. We present here the test results of a bakelite sample along with the cosmic ray test results of a bakelite RPC ($30\,{\text {cm}} \times 30\,{\text {cm}} \times 0.2\,{\text {cm}}$) fabricated at VECC. The steps taken towards the development of a large size ($240\,{\text {cm}} \times 120\,{\text {cm}} \times 0.2\,{\text {cm}}$) bakelite RPC have also been discussed.