Published December 1, 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Performance of the SLD central drift chamber prototype

  • 1. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (USA)
  • 2. Colorado Univ., Boulder (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics
  • 3. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (USA). Dept. of Physics
  • 4. San Francisco State Univ., CA (USA). Physics Dept.

Description

A two-cell prototype of the SLD central drift chamber has been tested using CO2-isobutane (92%-8%) at 1 atm. Average single wire resolution of 55 μm was achieved. Charge division tests indicate a resolution of the final design of < or approx. 0.5% of wire length. dE/dχ separation of π/e should be useful up to at least 7 GeV/c. 100 MHz waveform digitizers were used in parallel with conventional timing and integration techniques. The results show equivalent performance for single tracks and a two pulse resolution better than 1 mm. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A
Journal Volume
252
Journal Issue
2/3
Series
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A.
Journal Page Range
295-298
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAE

Conference

Title
Wire chambers - recent trends and alternative techniques.
Acronym
4. international wirechamber conference
Dates
25-28 Feb 1986.
Place
Vienna (Austria).

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract DE-AC03-76SF00515
Notes
Also published as report SLAC-PUB--3910; CONF-860272--6.