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PERFORMANCE OF A WALL-LESS DRIFT CHAMBER FOR MUON DETECTION

Authors

FAISSNER H MOERS T RAZEN B REITHLER H SCHWARTHOFF H TEYKAL H TUCHSCHERER H WAGNER H

Citation

H. Faissner et al., PERFORMANCE OF A WALL-LESS DRIFT CHAMBER FOR MUON DETECTION, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 356(2-3), 1995, pp. 280-285

Citations number

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

356

Issue

2-3

Year of publication

1995

Pages

280 - 285

Database

ISI

SICI code

0168-9002(1995)356:2-3<280:POAWDC>2.0.ZU;2-A

Abstract

We present results on an intensive study of a muon detector prototype designed for an experiment at the LHC. The chamber has eight layers of drift tubes measuring one projection of a muon track, and was tested with cosmic and beam muons and in a magnetic field. Single hit detecti on efficiencies of 99.9% for all gas mixtures and single hit resolutio ns of 190 mu m for the preferred gas mixture of Ar/CO2 80%/20% were ac hieved. In a magnetic field of 3 T the single hit resolution with this gas mixture decreased by 10%.