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We have operated successfully glass Resistive Plate Counters (RPC) at the BELLE experiment by using a nonflammable gas mixture of 30% argon, 8% butane-silver and 62% freon, HFC-134a. This freon is nonozone depleting freon, but a freon has a high global warming potential in general. Thus a gas mixture for RPC might be desired to be freonless in the near future. We have tested the performance of glass RPC operated in streamer mode with a nonfreon gas mixture of argon, butane, CO 2 and/or O 2 gases, and found an efficiency of about 90%.

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Author

Y. Hoshi; Y. Mikami; T. Nagamine; K. Watanabe; A. Yamaguchi; Y. Yusa

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV; ScienceOpen (ISSN 0168-9002)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)