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INO-ICAL is a proposed underground particle physics experiment to study theneutrino oscillation parameters by detecting neutrinos produced in theatmospheric air showers. Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) is to have 151 layers of ironstacked vertically, with active detector elements in between the iron layers.The iron layers will be magnetized to enable the measurement of momentum andcharge of the $\mu^-$ (or $\mu^+$) produced by $\nu_\mu$ (or $\bar{\nu}_\mu$)interactions. Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) have been chosen as the activedetector elements due to their large area coverage, uncompromised sensitivity,consistent performance for decades, as well as cost effectiveness. The majorfactors that decide the physics potential of the ICAL experiment areefficiency, position resolution and time resolution of the large area RPCs. Aprototype detector called miniICAL (with 11 iron layers) was commissioned tounderstand the engineering challenges in building the large scale magnet andits ancillary systems, and also to study the performance of the RPC detectorsand readout electronics developed by the INO collaboration. As part of theperformance study of the RPC detectors, an attempt is made to improve theposition and time resolution of them. Even a small improvement in the positionand time resolution will help to improve the measurements of momentum anddirectionality of the neutrinos in ICAL. The Time-over-Threshold (ToT) of theRPC pulses (signals) is recorded by the readout electronics. ToT is a measureof the pulse width and consequently the amplitude. This information is used toimprove the time and position resolution of the RPCs and consequently INOphysics potential.

Improving Time and Position Resolution of RPC detectors using Time Over Threshold Information