Performance tests of the ZEUS straw-tube tracker

Author

Karstens, F. ; Stifoutkin, A. ; Tandler, J.

Author_Institution

Phys. Inst., Freiburg Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

1122

Lastpage

1126

Abstract

The straw-tube tracker (STT) is part of a global tracking system of the ZEUS detector at the e^plusmnp storage ring HERA at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. The STT covers in combination with other tracking detectors the forward region of the experiment 1.75<eta<2.5. The highest hadronic particle flux appears in that region within the experiment. After the final installation of the STT within the ZEUS detector intensive checks are done in order to confirm the functionality before the first STT data taking period. A wire scan could not rule out completely eruptive damage of wires or damaged electronics caused by hadronic radiation since the STT is already two years in place under hadronic radiation of e⁺p and pp(background)-collisions

Keywords

drift chambers; position sensitive particle detectors; radiation effects; HERA electron+proton storage ring; HERA positron+proton storage ring; ZEUS detector; ZEUS straw-tube tracker; global tracking system; hadronic particle flux; hadronic radiation; positron+proton collision; proton+proton background collision; tracking detectors; wire scan; Aging; Driver circuits; Gas detectors; Helium; Radiation detectors; Signal processing; Storage rings; Structural beams; Testing; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2005 IEEE

Conference_Location

Fajardo

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9221-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596448

Filename

1596448