A CYLINDRICAL DRIFT CHAMBER FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF HIGH CHARGED-PARTICLE MULTIPLICITIES IN HADRONIC EVENTS

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作者
ALLEN, C [1 ]
BUJAK, A [1 ]
CARMONY, DD [1 ]
COLE, P [1 ]
CHOI, Y [1 ]
DEBONTE, R [1 ]
FINN, JE [1 ]
GUTAY, LJ [1 ]
HIRSCH, AS [1 ]
KOLTICK, D [1 ]
MCMAHON, T [1 ]
MORGAN, NK [1 ]
PORILE, NT [1 ]
SCHARENBERG, RP [1 ]
STRINGFELLOW, BC [1 ]
机构
[1] PURDUE UNIV,DEPT CHEM,W LAFAYETTE,IN 47907
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10.1016/0168-9002(90)91829-Z
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TH7 [仪器、仪表];
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0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The construction and operation of a 2 m long cylindrical drift chamber used as a high-multiplicity charged-particle detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider is presented. The chamber was constructed of low-mass carbon fibe-epoxy composite material and presents 0.014 interaction lengths of material to particles passing radially through it. A 24-layer "jet"-type drift cell was used which obtained a spatial resolution of 250 μm and a two-hit separation of 3 mm. The chamber reconstructed events containing more than 100 charged particles over approximately 3.4 units of pseudorapidity. © 1990.
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页码:108 / 116
页数:9
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