Resistive plate chambers for 2013-2014 muon upgrade in CMS at LHC

• Published in: Journal of instrumentation Vol. 9; no. 10; p. C10033
• Main Authors: Colafranceschi, S., Chudasama, R., Pant, L.M., Mohanty, A.K., Sehgal, R., Sehgal, S.T., Thomas, R.G., Sharma, A., Bhandari, V., Chand, S., Kumar, A., Kumar, S., Singh, A., Singh, V., Aly, S., Aly, R., Elkafrawy, T., Ibrahim, A., Radi, A., Sayed, A., Cauwenbergh, S., Cimmino, A., Crucy, S., Fagot, A., Garcia, G., Poyraz, D., Salva, S., Thyssen, F., Tytgat, M., Zaganidis, N., Abbrescia, M., Franco, M., Iaselli, P., Lacalamita, N., Loddo, F., Maggi, M., Pugliese, G., Verwilligen, P., Buontempo, S., Cassese, F., Cavallo, N., Energico, S., Fienga, F., Fabozzi, F., Iorio, O., Lista, L., Passeggio, G., Paolucci, P., Braghieri, A., Freddi, A., Gigli, S. Guelfo, Montagna, P., Riccardi, C., Salvini, P., Vercellati, F., Vitulo, P., Aleksandrov, A., Genchev, V., Iaydjiev, P., Rodozov, M., Stoykova, S., Sultanov, G., Vutova, M., Choi, Y., Kim, D., Benussi, L., Bianco, S., Passamonti, L., Piccolo, D., Pierluigi, D., Raffone, G., Russo, A., Saviano, G., Ahmad, A., Ahmed, W., Ali, I., Asghar, M., Awan, I., Hoorani, H., Muhammad, S., Shahzad, H., Shoaib, M., Ban, Y., Cai, J., Li, Q., Liu, S., Qian, S., Wang, D., Xu, Z., Zhang, F., Bernardino, S., Ibargüen, H., Pedraza, I., Bagaturia, I., Tsamalaidze, Z., Cabrera, A., Chaparro, L., Gomez, J.P., Gomez, B., Sanabria, J.C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.10.2014
• Subjects: Assembly; Chambers; Detectors; Instrumentation; Large Hadron Collider; Muons; Resistive plate chambers; Solenoids; Upgrading
• ISSN: 1748-0221; 1748-0221
• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/10/C10033

During 2013 and 2014 (Long Shutdown LS1) the CMS experiment is upgrading the forward region installing a fourth layer of RPC detectors in order to complete and improve the muon system performances in the view of the foreseen high luminosity run of LHC. The new two endcap disks consists of 144 double-gap RPC chambers assembled at three different production sites: CERN, Ghent (Belgium) and BARC (India). The chamber components as well as the final detectors are subjected to full series of tests established in parallel at all the production sites. All assembly and test operations have been engineered in order to standardize and improve detector production. In this work the complete chamber construction, quality control procedures and preliminary results will be detailed.