STUDY OF A DRIFT CHAMBER FILLED WITH A HELIUM ETHANE MIXTURE

Authors
UNO S SAKAI Y TSUKAMOTO T ABE K ADACHI I NOZAKI T SAITOH M SASAKI O YAMAOKA H EMI K NITOH O TAKAHASHI K AOKI M KAJIKAWA R MIYABAYASHI K NAKANO E OHNISHI Y SHIMOZAWA K SUGIYAMA A SUZUKI S TERAMAE F TOYAMA T YAMAKI T
Citation
S. Uno et al., STUDY OF A DRIFT CHAMBER FILLED WITH A HELIUM ETHANE MIXTURE, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 330(1-2), 1993, pp. 55-63
Citations number
17
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
330
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
55 - 63
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1993)330:1-2<55:SOADCF>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
We tested a small-cell drift chamber filled with a mixture of 50% heli um and 50% ethane in a 1 T magnetic field. A good spatial resolution ( sigma(x) = 88 +/- 2 mum) and a good dE/dx resolution (sigma(dE/dx)/dE/ dx = 10.1 +/- 0.2% with 10 samplings) were obtained. The energy loss a s a function of betagamma was measured.