Construction and performance of MEGA's low-mass, high-rate cylindrical MWPCs

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

Volumn 417, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 24-49

  Cooper, M D ^a   Armijo, V ^a   Black, J K ^a   Bolton, R D ^a   Carius, S ^a   Espinoza, C ^a   Hart, G ^a   Hogan, G E ^a   Gonzales, A ^a   Kroupa, M A ^a,g   Mischke, R E ^a   Sandoval, J ^a   Schilling, S ^a   Sena, J ^a   Suazo, G ^a   Whitehouse, D A ^a   Wilkinson, C A ^a   Stantz, K ^b   Szymanski, J J ^a,b   Jui, C C ^c,h   Gagliardi, C A ^d   Tribble, R E ^d   Tu, X L ^d,i   Fisk, R J ^e   Koetke, D D ^e   Manweiler, R W ^e   Nord, P M ^e   Stanislaus, S ^e   Piilonen, L E ^f   Zhang, Y D ^f,j   more..

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Vista Control Systems   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

ⁱ DSC Communications   (United States)

^j AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Multiwire proportional chambers with low mass and fine granularity for high particle fluxes; Muon decay

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; POSITRONS;

BRANCHING RATIO; MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS (MWPC); MUON DECAY;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0032203150     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(98)00655-X     Document Type: Article

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