1209.3893 (S. Colafranceschi et al.)

Performance of the Gas Gain Monitoring system of the CMS RPC muon
detector and effective working point fine tuning    [PDF]

S. Colafranceschi, L. Benussi, S. Bianco, L. Passamonti, D. Piccolo, D. Pierluigi, A. Russo, G. Saviano, C. Vendittozzi, M. Abbrescia, A. Aleksandrov, U. Berzano, C. Calabria, C. Carrillo, A. Colaleo, V. Genchev, P. Iaydjiev, M. Kang, K. S. Lee, F. Loddo, S. K. Park, G. Pugliese, M. Maggi, S. Shin, M. Rodozov, M. Shopova, G. Sultanov, P. Verwillingen

The Gas Gain Monitoring (GGM) system of the Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) muon detector in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment provides fast and accurate determination of the stability in the working point conditions due to gas mixture changes in the closed loop recirculation system. In 2011 the GGM began to operate using a feedback algorithm to control the applied voltage, in order to keep the GGM response insensitive to environmental temperature and atmospheric pressure variations. Recent results are presented on the feedback method used and on alternative algorithms.

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