1A study of new techniques for large scale Glass RPC production.

RPCs with float glass electrodes (GSC or Glass RPC) have been proposed as active elements for large detectors (e.g. MONOLITH). Industrial large scale GSC production has to be standardized in order to have homogeneous, affordable and reproducible detectors. A wide range of industrial glass treatments are already exploited by both glass and automobile industries. Our efforts are aimed to import and adapt such existing techniques for GSC large scale production. On the other hand we will design GSC in order to fit into standard industrial automatic production techniques. A first attempt in this direction has been successful, and we have found a way to produce glass with appropriate resistive coating by using industrial automatic silk screen printing techniques with an ad hoc developed synthetic varnish. Keywords:RPC, Glass, Production. 1