Final results of an experimental study of a large-area planar drift chamber filled with a He-based mixture

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 385, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 58-68

  Agnello, M ^a,b   Amaudruz, P A ^c   Botta, E ^b   Bressani, T ^b,d   Busso, L ^b,d   Calvo, D ^b   Cerello, P ^b   Fanara, C ^a   Feliciello, A ^b   Filippi, A ^b   Iazzi, F ^a,b   Marcello, S ^b   Minetti, B ^a,b   Mirfakhrai, N ^e   Morra, O ^b,f   Raimondo, A ^b,d   Rossetto, E ^b   Sharma, A ^b   Zenoni, A ^g,h  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c TRIUMF   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^h INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drift; Helium; Low mass; Resolution; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; HELIUM; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS;

LARGE AREA PLANAR DRIFT CHAMBERS; LORENTZ ANGLES;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

EID: 0030825996     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(97)82779-9     Document Type: Article

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