XVIII Conference on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors

Session

HEP performance

14 Sept 2026, 09:20

Conveners

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• Wagner De Paula Carvalho (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

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• Mapse Barroso Ferreira Filho (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
• Dilson De Jesus Damiao (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

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• Mapse Barroso Ferreira Filho (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

Description

Auditorium 111 (UERJ/Maracanã)
The session is dedicated to the operation and performance of RPC/MRPC systems in HEP experiments (efficiency, timing, rate capability, trigger/reconstruction, stability, Run/upgrade performance.

17. Operation and performance of the CMS RPC system during LHC Run 3 data taking

Andres Leonardo Cabrera Mora (Universidad de los Andes (CO))

14/09/2026, 09:20

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Talk

Run 3 data taking of the LHC will conclude in the summer of 2026. So far, the CMS experiment has accumulated 30.36 fb⁻¹ of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13.6 TeV in 2026 alone, bringing the total for the entire Run 3 to 326.03 fb⁻¹. The CMS experiment is designed to identify muons robustly, efficiently and redundantly. One of the detectors used for this purpose is...

47. Performance of the ATLAS Resistive Plate Chamber System during LHC operations

Paolo Camarri (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))

14/09/2026, 09:40

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Talk

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) have played a crucial role as muon-trigger detectors in the major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), including ATLAS, CMS, and ALICE, since the beginning of LHC operations. In the ATLAS experiment, RPCs provide fast trigger signals for muon identification in the barrel region and constitute a fundamental component of the Level-1 (L1) muon trigger...

46. Towards High-Performance Thin-Glass RPCs for the Next Generation of Collider Experiments

Dayron Ramos Lopez (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))

14/09/2026, 10:30

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Talk

Future collider experiments impose stringent requirements on muon detector technologies, demanding large-area coverage at low cost per channel, high detection efficiency, time resolution on the order of a few hundred picoseconds, and long-term operational stability. Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) remain strong candidates for next-generation muon systems, and ongoing R&D is pursuing thin-gap...

43. Operation and performance of the ALICE Muon IDentifier RPCs during LHC Run 3

Luca Quaglia (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

14/09/2026, 10:50

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Talk

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a multi-purpose detector installed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its main goal is the characterization of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The QGP is a state of nuclear matter where quarks and gluons are not confined into hadrons. In the forward rapidity region (2.5 < y < 4) ALICE is equipped with a...

19. Development and Validation of the iRPC Back-End Electronics Prototype for CMS Phase-II Upgrade

Canming Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

14/09/2026, 11:10

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Talk

The iRPC (improved Resistive Plate Chamber) is a newly introduced detector in the CMS Phase-II Upgrade, designed to enhance muon detection efficiency in the high-luminosity LHC environment. In order to study the performance of iRPC and R&D on the key technology of Backend Electronics, a prototype back-end electronics (BE) system based on the MicroTCA (µTCA) architecture has been developed and...

7. The long term performance of MRPCs in the ALICE TOF and the Extreme Energy Events detectors

Bianca Sabiu (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

14/09/2026, 11:30

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Talk

Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) are gaseous detectors of choice for nuclear and particle physics experiments given their excellent time resolution, high efficiency and low cost. Among others, two large-area experiments have employed MRPCs for over 15 years: the ALICE Time-of-Flight (TOF) detector at the LHC and the Extreme Energy Events project (EEE).

The ALICE TOF is a key...

50. Resistive Plate Chambers as charged-particle trigger detectors: from the HL- LHC to the FCC

Paolo Camarri (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" and INFN Roma Tor Vergata)

14/09/2026, 14:30

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Talk

The R&D activity which was needed for the required upgrade of the RPCs in view of the HL-LHC operation paves the way to the development of next-generation RPCs for general-purpose experiments at future colliders such as the Future Circular Collider (FCC) foreseen at CERN. The first big step will be the FCC-ee, which will study collisions of electron and positron beams with a center-of-mass...