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A large number of Resistive Plate Chamber will be used in the ICAL detector set-up in the proposed INO facility. The timing response from RPCs will govern the accuracy of ICAL in distinguishing the up-going muon tracks from the down-going ones by recording the time of passage of the muons through the RPCs. The timing performance of a bakelite RPC has been studied both experimentally and numerically to understand the effect of different operating conditions, like applied voltage and used gas mixture, on the timing properties. This can lead us to judge the suitability of bakelite RPC for application in ICAL set-up which is planned to be equipped with glass RPCs at present.
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The authors acknowledge the technical assistance received from Ganesh Das (VECC), Pradipta kr. Das (SINP), Chandranath Marick (SINP) during the experiment and the SINP workshop for many mechanical fabrications. We thank Dr. Saikat Biswas (Bose Institute), Prof. Sudeb Bhattacharya (SINP) and Rajesh Ganai (VECC) for their suggestions and helpful discussions at different stages of the work. The financial support extended to the author, A. J., from INO collaboration, is gratefully acknowledged.
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Jash, A., Tripathy, S., Majumdar, N., Mukhopadhyay, S., Saha, S., Chattopadhyay, S. (2018). Effect of Electric Field and Gas Mixture on RPC Time Resolution. In: Biswas, S., Das, S., Ghosh, S. (eds) Advanced Detectors for Nuclear, High Energy and Astroparticle Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 201. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7665-7_16
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