Simulation of a stack of resistive plate chambers

The India based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project is a multi - institutional effort wherein the primary purpose is building of world class laboratory for non accelerator based high energy and nuclear physics research in India.The primary goal of INO is to study the atmospheric neutrinos. The main detector proposed to be built at the INO is the magnetised Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) with a mass of 50 kton. In ICAL, 5.6 cm thick iron plates act as the target, whose 151 layers are interleaved with the Resistive Plate Chambers. Single gap Resistive Plate Chambers (either of glass or Bakelite) of 2m x 2m in size are going to be used as the active detector element for the INO-ICAL experiment. The primary mechanism for particle detection in INO - ICAL is via tracking of Muons produced inside the detector mass by the charged current neutrino interactions. The main purpose of tracking is simultaneous determination of energy as well as the direction of the charged particle