Forward Drift Chamber for the GlueX experiment

Conference · Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI ID:1993499

Pentchev, Lubomir

The GlueX experiment will search for exotic mesons produced by 9 GeV linearly polarized photon beams from the 12GeV CEBAF machine. Hermetic solenoid-based detector system that includes tracking and calorimetry is in the final construction phase. The Forward Drift Chamber consists of 24 circular planar drift chambers of $1~m$ diameter. Additional cathode strip information is required to achieve efficient pattern recognition in forward direction, resulting in 12,000 readout channels in total. Description and results from the tests of the completed detector will be presented. Challenges related to the specific features of the detector will be discussed.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 1993499
• Report Number(s): JLAB-PHY-14-2113; DOE/OR/23177-6851
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English