Analysis of the performances of sealed timing resistive plate chambers

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by
Khokon Hossen
Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
E-mail: khokon.pme@gmail.com
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Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs), that were introduced by R. Santonico and R. Cardarelli in 1981, are gas ionization chambers made with resistive electrodes separated by precision spacers.
Typical gas gap range from a few hundred micrometers to several millimeters wide.
Timing Resistive Plate Chambers (tRPCs) were introduced in 2000 by P.Fonte, A.Smirnitsky and M.C.S Williams and has, since then, reached Time Resolutions better than 50 ps (σ) with efficiencies above 99% for Minimum Ionizing Particle (MIP).
In this research work, we describe the main features of gas detectors and the different types of RPCs and their properties.
We describe a cheap and easy to built sealed tRPCs and we explain how we have built it.
We describe the main results we have got operating the sealed tRPCs built in the laboratory.

856 comments to Analysis of the performances of sealed timing resistive plate chambers

  • Andrea Rossi

    Jan:
    To answer to you I’d need the well discussed crystal ball. I can say, though, that we already have the plans ready, as well as agreements with a chain of industries in America, Europe and Asia ready to start their parcel of outsourcing activity. Assuming that the results of the tests on course will end up to be positive ( which is still not sure) , I can suppose, but it is only a supposition, that in one year the massive production could be on line. I underline: this is a supposition, not a forecast.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Jona Hoffenbaum:
    Should I comment all the BS that is published in the blogosphere, I couldn’t spare time to do my job.
    I am focused on the tests on course on the 1 MW E-Cat installed in the industry of a Customer, the first LENR industrial plant of History. I want not to be disturbed by this kind of stuff.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Jona Hoffenbaum

    Dear Dr Andrea Rossi:
    We read in two blogs that Ing. La Gatta, a competitor of yours working with ENEA, is collaborating with Industrial Heat in a new facility in Raleigh to work with them sharing with them: how do you comment?
    Jona

  • Jan

    Dr Andrea Rossi:
    How much time do you think will be necessary for the industrialization of the E-Cat, if the tests on course will end up with positive results?

  • Popi

    Dr Andrea Rossi:
    Are you open to collaborate with your competitors, directly or indirectly, for the industrialization of the E-Cat?
    Kurt Von Riffeser

  • Andrea Rossi

    Elahi:
    Now I am focused exclusively on the tests on course on the 1 MW E-Cat. When these tests will have been completed, I will surely be a maker of the industrialization.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Goran Grotz:
    The Intellectual Property is of Leonardo Corporation. We licensed its industrial and/or commercial rights to the Licensees for specific Territories. The Licenses sales are blocked ,anyway, since about 2 years.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Elahi

    Dr Andrea Rossi:
    You will be a maker of the industrialization of the E-Cat or you will retire after the end of the tests on course?
    Thank you,
    Elahi

  • Goran Grotz

    Dr Andrea Rossi:
    How is your strategy related to the Intellectual Property? Is it of Leonardo Corporation or you have sold it ?
    Cheers,
    Goran

  • Andrea Rossi

    Gerard Mc Ek:
    We will give technical data after the completion of the tests on course, hoping the final results will be positive.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Dr Joseph Fine:
    Thank you for this very interesting exchange between you and Prof. Norman Cook and for the annexed link.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Gerard McEk

    Dear Andrea,
    Your latest revelations regarding the 250 kW ecats are very intriguing. Can I assume that since February these units produce most if not all the energy of your plant, or is it the other way around and they are just spare in case of instability of the about fifty 20 kW ecats?
    Thanks, Gerard

  • Joseph Fine

    Dear Andrea Rossi,

    I received the following from Professor Norman D. Cook, (slightly edited so as not to mention other persons or organizations) 🙂

    The link to the video is very interesting. I am sending it so others can view it.

    Continuing regards,

    Joseph M. Fine

    Professor Cook:

    Could you tell me when the next edition of your book M.A.N. (Models of the Atomic Nucleus) will be published?

    I have the earlier edition, but thought the next edition was going to come out some time later this year or early in 2016.

    Thank you,

    Joseph M. Fine

    Dear Joseph,

    Many thanks for the inquiry. The third Edition is “on hold” – and I am uncertain…(when it will appear). I must say that plans for the new edition have not included anything fundamentally new. The second edition is still an improvement over the first. [……] As you may know, I am highly critical of “conventional” work and conventional textbooks.

    Meanwhile, I have created a small video for the FQXi competition:

    large

    View on http://www.youtube.com

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNX0tmbFUtE

    Best wishes,

    Norman

  • Andrea Rossi

    Frank Acland:
    Yes.
    At the beginning we had many troubles and many stops for major problems. Very hard times. All problems resolved, so far. F9.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Frank Acland

    Dear Andrea,

    So this 136 day (so far) test has included the 4 250 kW E-Cats from the beginning?

    Many thanks,

    Frank Acland

  • Andrea Rossi

    Hayatt Berenice:
    Yes, you got it.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Paul:
    Yes.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Paul

    Andrea,

    Were the 4 250 KW modules fired up on February 20th this year?

    Paul

  • Andrea Rossi

    Albert Ellul:
    Thank you, so you were not a “dormant Reader”, but a “silent Reader”. What is important is that we did not lose you as a Reader. Yes, every day that passes is a day less to go through.
    Thank you for your attention,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Frank Acland:
    Yes.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Abraham Schwartz:I do not know, because this issue does not depend on us, but, as I said, we are working hard on it.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Frank Acland

    Dear Andrea,

    Glad to hear you say this: “we are working very well on the certifications”

    Does this mean positive and productive collaboration and communication with certifiers?

    Many thanks,

    Frank Acland

  • Albert Ellul

    Ing. Rossi,

    It’s been long months since I’ve asked some questions, but that doesn’t mean that I was away from your blog, not at all. In fact I’ve been following it without missing a day. Along the way I have noticed a quantum leap in your level of optimism which I hope I’m correct saying it, but more than that I hope that you get the success you so deserve and in a very short time. The world needs your e-Cat.

  • Abraham Schwartz

    Dr Andrea Rossi:
    How much time do you think will be necessary o get the safety certification for the Hot Cat ?

  • Hayatt Berenice

    Dr Andrea Rossi:
    I saw the movie “The Concert” that you repeatedly suggested in this blog to watch: I want to thank you, because is the most inspiring movie I ever have seen. I also understand why you got passion for it: you have seen in the life of the Orchestra Director the mirror of your vicissitudes: you have seen yourself in him, is that correct?
    God bless you for the work you are making for us,
    Berenice

  • Andrea Rossi

    Dan C.:
    The safety certification is not a matter of temperature. In the gas boiler you have in your apartment, or house, the flame reaches 2000°C, and it got all the necessary certifications.
    The matter is more complicated. We are working very well on the certifications, though.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.
    P.S.
    The E-Cat is much more difficult than crystal balls, because we navigate on uncharted waters, while crystal balls are a well known thing since the Middle Age ( Ref: Whitesnow, Cinderella, Harry Potter, etc etc) : that’s the invention of the hot water !!! They don’t deliver just because they are lazy.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Arthur Burton:
    Thank you: what really is important is the work of the E-Cat.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Curiosone:
    Yes, Fermions can be turned into bosons. A quite interesting example is the one related to 2 electrons that in a superconductor , summing up their 1/2 spin, make spin 1 and become a boson, so that they can run unimpeded through the superconductor. This can happen not just in a superconductor, but also in a vacuum field with a non zero value, and can happen both for Fermions turned into Bosons and Bosons turned into Fermions ( as it happens to the gage Bosons W+, W- and Z°, mediators of the weak forces, when they resonate with the Higgs field ( not the Higgs boson…).
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    D. Travchenko:
    Dr Irina Uzikova is the daughter of Dr Vitaly Uzikov.
    By the way: Dr Vitaly Uzikov has recently patented a system to reduce the volume of radioactive wastes that I think is the most advanced in the world. As you probably know, he is one among the best Russian experts of nuclear plants.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    JC Renoir:
    136 days as of today.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Dan C.

    Dear Andrea,

    Suspending (F9) for a moment,

    Some of your statements seem to imply that an LT-Cat will not be the future product for home heating. As in “my opinion”, an HT-Cat operated at 1000`C plus isn’t likely to be certified for residential heating, are you doing R&D on something in a mid range. Possibly an MT-Cat for a home energy system that can produce some electricity plus home heating.

    OK, (F9) is re-engaged.

    Just to inform you, I have been in contact with the R&D department. It appears that Crystal balls like the E-cat, are not so simple to build. Insert (F8)- “I can not reveal the Particulars until we receive our IP.” (F9)
    🙂

    Kind regards,

    Dan C.

    PS,
    My Opinions are worth a Nickel on a good day.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Ian Walker:
    As I already said, these data will be published only after the end of the tests on course.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Ian Walker

    Dear Andrea Rossi

    Would you be prepared to let us know the rough percentage of hours that the 1 Mega Watt plant has been in Self Sustain Mode for the last month. While recognising it is not a necessarily indicative of the whole period of the plants operation or an indication of future, past or final performance.

    Kind Regards Ian Walker

  • Arthur Burton

    Dr Andrea Rossi:
    Most of the blogosphere is with you, and millions of persons wait for the E-Cat for sale. Against you only the rants of the usual several naysayers, but nobody listens to them anymore. This is the result of your work in this last couple of years. You can be satisfied of yourself.
    Godspeed,
    Arthur Burton

  • Curiosone

    Dr Andrea Rossi:
    We know that Bosons are turned into Fermions by the Higgs Boson. Is it possible the contrary, that Fermions are turned into Bosons?
    Thank you for your patience if you answer,
    W.G.

  • DTravchenko

    Dr Rossi:
    You cited repeatedly the nuclear Physicist Irina Uzikov as a Russian scientist that attended your first test with a 1 ME E-Cat in Bologna. Is she a parent of the well known Dr Vitaly Uzikov?
    D.T.

  • JCRenoir

    Dear Andrea Rossi:
    How many operative days of 24 hours each has the 1 MW E-Cat operated, from the start up to now? Can you tell us this?
    Cheers,
    JC Renoir

  • Andrea Rossi

    Domenico Canino:
    Rome has been made brick by brick. F9.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Frank Acland:
    Let’s start with saying that for the future I need the blessed crystal ball that Amazon makes evanescent so far. This said, I think your consideration is inspired by good sense.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Marco Serra:
    Moreless correct.
    Thank you!
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Marco Serra

    Dear Andrea,
    you have often said “She is in ssm”. SSM means that She’s working in a state that no input power is required (excluding for the controls), am i right ?
    Being She formed of a group of a hundred 10Kw reactors, an input power = 0 may suggest that each one of the reactors is in ssm at the same time, is it correct ?

    God bless you

    Marco

  • Frank Acland

    Dear Andrea,

    This comes from a reader of E-Cat World:

    Assuming successful testing of your LT reactor, are you planning industrial size production of units shortly afterwards? Or just build a few units and increase production gradually? Much regards from long time supporter of your work. Gradual increase in production of units makes sense to me since the reactor is still rapidly evolving.

    Kind regards,

    Frank Acland

  • domenico canino

    Hi Andrea,
    Why you and IH don’t accelerate the development of the Cats, in a big factory with 200-300 engineers and other technicians,that test and improve all the components like a game-changer technology like your deserves?

  • Andrea Rossi

    Frank Acland:
    Yes, the low temperature E-Cats will be still in the line of fire for many industrial purposes. Not for domestic.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Jimmy Hanks:
    Yes, basically is the same, but a foundamental modification has been made that has improved the ssm cycle, also thanks to the study I made of the results, that, for obvious reasons, told me much more than can tell to anyone else.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Frank Acland

    Dear Andrea,

    If you have success with Hot Cat testing, will there still be good reasons for you to produce low temperature E-Cat plants and reactors? Why would you need the low temperature plants?

    Many thanks,

    Frank Acland

  • Andrea Rossi

    Manuel Cilia:
    When the Hot Cat will be for sale we will give all the necessary addresses where to buy it ( F9).
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Jimmy Hanks

    Dear Andrea Rossi:
    Perhaps you already answered to this, if yes I am sorry: the Hot Cat you are testing in the computer container is equal to the reactor tested by the ITP in Lugano in 2014?
    Jimmy Hanks

  • Dear Mr Rossi
    If the test prove in the positive, who will be looking after the sale of the Hot-cats, we are based in Australia and have been following your work since the beginning and are looking at impelmenting your technology into cement manufacturing which is very large consumer of energy. thank you

  • Andrea Rossi

    Peter Metz:
    SSM means “self sustained mode”. Precise data will be given in due time.
    Today I have been all the day inside the plant, therefore no BBQ, but I think that the field of our work resonates with the field of the work that brought the USA to get their Independence. Thank you for your invitation for the next year: I adore BBQ. The one I remember with most affection is the BBQ on July 4th 1998 in the house of my friend Craig Cassarino, now vice-president of LTI, discussing about my LENR experiments, that in those times were made very secretly. Craig is a BBQ Master, and used to spray on the beef a sauce of his invention, whose secret was more coveted than is now the IP of the E-Cat.
    (Hi, Craig!)
    Thank you, dear Peter Metz, also for giving me the chance to wish a wonderful July 4th to all our Readers that live in the USA!
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

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