Vn. Bychkov et al., CATHODE READOUT WITH STRIPPED RESISTIVE DRIFT TUBES, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 367(1-3), 1995, pp. 276-279
A straw tube drift chamber prototype has been constructed and tested.
The straw tube material is mylar film covered with a carbon layer with
a resistivity of 0.5, 30 and 70 k Omega/square. Both the anode wire a
nd the cathode strip signals were detected to study the behaviour of t
he chamber in the presence of X-ray ionization. The construction and t
he results of the study are presented.