RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF AN INTERPOLATING PAD CHAMBER IN THE 9 GEV C-PI- BEAM AT BNL/

Authors
FENKER H MORGAN K SHYPIT R THOMAS J BOWER CR MUSSER J BROOKS M LEE D MARTIN R MILLS G ROMERO J ALAM S NEMATTI B ONEILL JJ SEVERINI H BALTAY C BARAKAT B EMMET W SINNOTT J WOLIN E SMITH G YU B
Citation
H. Fenker et al., RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF AN INTERPOLATING PAD CHAMBER IN THE 9 GEV C-PI- BEAM AT BNL/, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 346(1-2), 1994, pp. 75-94
Citations number
3
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
346
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
75 - 94
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1994)346:1-2<75:RMOAIP>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
Results are presented from the first test of a full size barrel protot ype Interpolating Pad Chamber for the GEM central tracker in the 9 GeV /c pi- beam at the Brookhaven AGS. An average resolution of 45 mum has been achieved using electronics functionally identical to the final G EM design. Two 50 mRad stereo pad layers combine to give 680 mum resol ution in the direction along the chamber. A calibration procedure whic h uses the data to measure the gains and pedestals for each pad has be en developed and is presented together with resolution results from th e silicon telescope used to project the tracks into the pad chambers.