Measurement of the efficiency and time resolution of double-gap resistive plate chambers

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Abstract

We describe a detector built by assembling together two resistive plate chambers and read out by a single median electrode plane segmented in strips. We present results of measurements of the efficiency and of the time response as a function of the particle flux.

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Now at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA.

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Visitor from Central Research Institute for Physics, KNKI, Budapest, Hungary.

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Visitor from Imperial College, London, UK.

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Visitor from Institute for Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland.

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Dipartimento di Fisica della III Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.

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