Performance of 2mm radius straw tube drift cells

Conference · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:5858117

Avery, R E; Bantly, J; Blessing, S; Buchholz, D; Gobbi, B; Liu, Y; Rajagopalan, S; Tilden, R ^[1]; Martin, M ^[2]

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1. Northwestern Univ., Chicago, IL (United States)
2. Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (United States)

The performance of a 128 channel test module made with straw tubes of 2mm radius has been studied in a test beam and with cosmic rays. Different gases were used and for each one the time-to-distance relation and the hit efficiency was measured. Comparison are made between results when two different electronics readouts were used. The information was recorded with 106 MHz FADC units and also with TDCs (50ps resolution). The best resolution, of 135 [mu]m, was obtained using 50% ethane, 50% argon and reading out the information with the TDCs, at an operating HV of 1,750V.

• OSTI ID: 5858117
• Report Number(s): CONF-921005-; CODEN: IETNAE
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 40:4 part 1; Conference: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, Orlando, FL (United States), 25-31 Oct 1992; ISSN 0018-9499
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DRIFT CHAMBERS
PERFORMANCE
ARGON
ETHANE
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
GASES
PARTICLE TRACKS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
READOUT SYSTEMS
ALKANES
DATA
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
HYDROCARBONS
INFORMATION
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS
NONMETALS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS
RADIATION DETECTORS
RARE GASES
TESTING
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