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Description
The High Luminosity phase of LHC, foreseen to start in less then ten years from now, has triggered the development of a new generation of gaseous detectors with much improved performance with respect to the present one. For what concerns Resistive Plate Chambers, R&D is focusing on the methods to increase the maximum flux of impinging particles that these devices can stand without degradation for a prolonged -up to more than ten years- period of time. Different solutions are being proposed and extensively investigated upon. Here a detailed overview of the physics that governs the processes taking place in RPCs at high rate will be presented. The fundamental parameters that influence rate capability will be taken in exam and the way how they can be optimized in order to increase rate capability will be outlined. A comparison with simulation and experimental data confirms the goodness of the approach and the validity of results obtained.
