A HIGH-PRECISION DRIFT STRAW TUBE COUNTER FOR PARTICLE TRACKING FOR ACCELERATOR AND SPACE EXPERIMENTS

Authors
DECATALDO G FAVUZZI C GIGLIETTO N MAZZIOTTA MN RAINO A SPINELLI P
Citation
G. Decataldo et al., A HIGH-PRECISION DRIFT STRAW TUBE COUNTER FOR PARTICLE TRACKING FOR ACCELERATOR AND SPACE EXPERIMENTS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 409(1-3), 1998, pp. 73-74
Citations number
2
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
409
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
73 - 74
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1998)409:1-3<73:AHDSTC>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
We have designed and tested a straw tube detector prototype to investi gate the possibility to operate a full-size device in sealed mode with extremely reduced gas leaks in accelerator experiments and astroparti cle physics researches in outer space. In order to acheive a high spat ial resolution we tested a ''cool''-gas-based mixture, namely, argon-c arbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure. In our tests, running the straw tube counter in drift mode with properly designed front-end electroni cs, we obtained a single-tube spatial resolution of the order of 30 mu m. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.