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摘要
The capability of covering very large areas at low cost, besides showing excellent performance in many aspects, motivated the application of RPCs to Neutrino physics research in experiments such as Daya Bay neutrino experiment. However, some of the traditional bakelite RPCs cannot work well in these hash underground environments. This paper mainly describes a new type of RPC for the VETO detector of JUNO. It is developed with thin float glass, and a special necklace spacer is designed to keep the gap uniformity. The RPC is sealed in a gas tight box, so it will not be affected directly by ambient environment and it can work well in humid condition underground. A one-dimensional and a two-dimensional readout RPC prototypes have been developed and tested in our lab. The results show that the detection efficiency can reach as high as 98% and the noise rate is less than 1 Hz/cm(2) both in the avalanche mode and streamer mode. The dark current is much lower than the traditional Bakelite RPC. Some details of the structure and performance of the new type of RPC are all described in this paper.
