CEBAF HMS drift chamber prototype construction and performance

Author

Baker, O.K. ; Carlini, R. ; Kross, Brian ; Mack, D. ; Majewski, S. ; Malamud, G. ; McCauley, A. ; Naing, W. ; Napolitano, J. ; Shin, T. ; Weisenberger, Andrew ; Wood, S.

Author_Institution

Continuous Electron Beam Accel. Facility, Newport News, VA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

2-9 Nov. 1991

Firstpage

417

Abstract

A prototype of the multiwire drift chambers to be used in the high-momentum spectrometer (HMS) at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) has been designed and constructed. The prototype chamber has been tested recently in a 150-MeV pi /sup +/ beam with good results. The prototype chamber has 6 planes with a resolution per plane of about 94+or-11 mu m (sigma). This resolution is relatively constant up to 2 kHz wire/sup -1/ mm/sup -1/. The design of the full-sized HMS drift chambers has been finalized, based upon the work reported here.<>

Keywords

meson detection and measurement; position sensitive particle detectors; proportional counters; CEBAF HMS drift chamber prototype; construction; high-momentum spectrometer; multiwire drift chambers; performance; Anodes; Cathodes; Connectors; Electron accelerators; Electron beams; Prototypes; Spectroscopy; Testing; Voltage; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0513-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.258945

Filename

258945