STRAW CHAMBERS OPERATING IN VACUUM FOR PARTICLE TRACKING AND TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTION IN ACCELERATOR AND SPACE EXPERIMENTS

Authors
BARBARITO E CHIARADIA MT DECATALDO G FAVUZZI C GIGLIETTO N MONGELLI M PERCHIAZZI M RAINO A SACCHETTI A SPINELLI P
Citation
E. Barbarito et al., STRAW CHAMBERS OPERATING IN VACUUM FOR PARTICLE TRACKING AND TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTION IN ACCELERATOR AND SPACE EXPERIMENTS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 381(1), 1996, pp. 39-48
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
381
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
39 - 48
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1996)381:1<39:SCOIVF>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We have designed and tested some straw tubes prototype detectors to in vestigate the possibility to operate a full size chamber with extremel y reduced gas leaks in a high vacuum environment in accelerator experi ments or in sealed mode for astroparticle physics researches in outer space. After completing the tests we have finally built a tracking det ector of 1300 channels which has run in a vacuum chamber in the experi ment E864 at BNL with a leak of 7 x 10(-3) Torr l/s compatible with th e permeability of the materials used.