Resistive Plate Chambers with Gd-coated
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M. Abbrescia; G. Iaselli; T. Mongelli; V. Paticchio; B. Pavlov; A. Ranieri; R. T
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Article
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2004
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are wide spread, cheap, easy-to-build and large size detectors, used mainly to reveal ionising particles in high-energy physics experiments. Here a technique, consisting in coating the inner surface of the bakelite electrodes with a mixture of linseed oil and Gd 2 O 3