Séminaire de Doctorant 2eme année: Description and simulation of physics of Resistive Plate Chambers

par M. Vincent FRANCAIS (LPC-Clermont)

vendredi 22 janv. 2016, 14:30 → 15:30 Europe/Paris

Amphi Recherche (Dept.Phys.)

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) are gaseous particle detectors widely used in many experiments as they are affordable and yet efficient and reliable. They can be used both as timing or tracking charged-particle detector. Monte-Carlo simulation of physical processes is an important tool for detector development as it allows to predict signal pulse amplitude and timing, time resolution, efficiency and so on. Yet despite the fact they are very common, full simulations for RPC-like detector are not widespread and often incomplete. In this presentation we'll describe the main physical processes occurring inside a RPC when a charged particle goes through (ionisation, electron drift and multiplication, signal induction ...) together with the still-in-development simulation. This is a full, fast and multi-threaded Monte-Carlo modelisation of the main physical processes using existing and well tested libraries and framework. It is developed in the hope to be a basic ground for future RPC simulation developments.