New Prototype Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers with Long Strips
  A new kind of Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) has been built for the large-area Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) for the STAR experiment at RHIC. These long read-out strip MRPCs (LMRPCs) have an active area of 87.0 x 17.0 cm2 and ten 250 um-thick gas gaps arranged as a double stack. Each read-out strip is 2.5 cm wide and 90 cm long. The signals are read-out at both ends of each strip. Cosmic ray tests indicate a time resolution of ~70 ps and a detection efficiency of greater than 95%. Beam tests performed at T963 at Fermilab indicate a time resolution of 60-70 ps and a spatial resolution of ~1 cm along the strip direction. 
Y.J. Sun, C. Li, M. Shao, B. Gui, Y.E. Zhao, H.F. Chen, Z.B. Xu, L.J.   Ruan, G.J. Lin, X. Wang, Y. Wang, Z.B. Tang, G. Eppl...