THE FULL-LENGTH PROTOTYPE OF THE KLOE DRIFT CHAMBER

Authors
ANDRYAKOV A AVANZINI C BACCI C BEKER H BENCIVENNI G BUCCI L CATALDI G CERADINI F CRETI P DELUCIA E DENIG A DESIMONE P DONNO F ELIA V FELICI G FINOCCHIARO G GOLOVATYUK V GORINI E GRANCAGNOLO F GRANDEGGER W VONHAGEL U KLUGE W LACAVA F LUISI C MARGUTTI G MESSI R PANAREO M PAOLUZI L PASQUALUCCI E PATERA V PICCA D PONTECORVO L PRIMAVERA M SPAGNOLO S VALENTE P
Citation
A. Andryakov et al., THE FULL-LENGTH PROTOTYPE OF THE KLOE DRIFT CHAMBER, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 404(2-3), 1998, pp. 248-264
Citations number
32
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
404
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
248 - 264
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1998)404:2-3<248:TFPOTK>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The main goal of the KLOE experiment is the study of CP violation in t he K mesons system, with an accuracy of 10(-4) in the measurement of R e(epsilon'/epsilon). This task imposes strong constraints on the desig n and operation of the drift chamber, which must reconstruct the charg ed decays of low momentum K-L's and K-S's with high efficiency and hig h resolution, full-length prototype of the chamber has been built and tested on a 50 GeV/c beam. The analysis of the large sample of data ha s allowed a detailed study of the time to distance relations as a func tion of the track parameters and of the peculiar geometry of the drift cell, The detector performance, in terms of efficiency, spatial resol utions and dE/dx resolution, is illustrated and discussed. (C) 1998 El sevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.