PERFORMANCE OF DRIFT CHAMBERS IN A MAGNETIC RIGIDITY SPECTROMETER FORMEASURING THE COSMIC-RADIATION

Authors
HOF M BREMERICH M MENN W PFEIFER C REIMER O SIMON M MITCHELL JW BARBIER LM CHRISTIAN ER ORMES JF STREITMATTER RE GOLDEN RL STOCHAJ SJ
Citation
M. Hof et al., PERFORMANCE OF DRIFT CHAMBERS IN A MAGNETIC RIGIDITY SPECTROMETER FORMEASURING THE COSMIC-RADIATION, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 345(3), 1994, pp. 561-569
Citations number
22
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
345
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
561 - 569
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1994)345:3<561:PODCIA>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
A drift chamber tracking system was developed and flown as part of the IMAX balloon-borne magnetic spectrometer. The drift chamber uses a he xagonal drift-cell structure and is filled with pure CO2 gas. It opera ted with high efficiency in the strong and inhomogenous field of a sup erconducting magnet, demonstrating a spatial resolution of better than 100 mum over most of the drift path for singly charged particles, as well as for helium and lithium nuclei. The drift chamber portion of th e spectrometer achieved a maximum detectable rigidity of 175 and 250 G V/c for protons and helium respectively.