The straw-tube tracker of the ZEUS-detector at HERA

Author

Goers, S.

Author_Institution

ZEUS-STT Collaboration, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

18-20 May 2004

Firstpage

1129

Abstract

The design of the straw tube tracker (STT) is described. The detector consists of 48 sectors and an overall of 11,000 straws, which allows precise track measurements in the forward direction of the ZEUS-detector at HERA. Test beam measurements are shown and the results are compared to Monte Carlo simulations. The STT is also used in the ZEUS trigger logic. An offline reconstruction algorithm is implemented and works. It is shown that we are able to reconstruct tracks in the forward direction of ZEUS, up to a pseudorapidity of 3.2 with high efficiency.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; colliding beam accelerators; particle track visualisation; signal reconstruction; trigger circuits; HERA ZEUS-detector; Monte Carlo simulations; STT; ZEUS trigger logic; colliding beam detectors; forward direction track measurements; offline track reconstruction algorithm; pseudorapidity; straw-tube tracker; test beam measurements; Ambient intelligence; Collaboration; Electrons; Insulation life; Large Hadron Collider; Logic; Magnetic fields; Physics; Protons; Radiation detectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2004. IMTC 04. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8248-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351263

Filename

1351263