Energy loss of pions and electrons of 1-6 GeV/c in drift chambers operated with Xe, CO2(15%)

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

Volumn 519, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 508-517

  Andronic, A ^a,d   Appelshauser H ^b   Blume, C ^a   Braun Munzinger, P ^a   Bucher, D ^c   Busch, O ^a   Catanescu V ^b,d   Ciobanu, M ^a,d   Daues, H ^a   Emschermann, D ^b   Fateev, O ^e   Foka, Y ^a   Garabatos, C ^a   Gunji, T ^f   Herrmann, N ^b   Inuzuka, M ^f   Kislov, E ^e   Lindenstruth, V ^b   Ludolphs, W ^b   Mahmoud, T ^b   Petracek, V ^b   Petrovici, M ^d   Rusanov, I ^b   Sandoval, A ^a   Santo, R ^c   Schicker, R ^b   Simon, R S ^a   Smykov, L ^e   Soltveit, H K ^b   Stachel, J ^b   Stelzer, H ^a   Tsiledakis, G ^a   Vulpescu, B ^b   Wessels, J P ^c   Windelband, B ^b   Xu, C ^b   Zaudtke, O ^c   Zanevsky, Yu ^e   Yurevich, V ^e   more..

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^e JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drift chambers; Electron pion identification; Ionization energy loss; Transition radiation detector; Xenon based gas mixture

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; IONIZATION; MIXTURES; RADIATION DETECTORS; X RAY ANALYSIS; XENON;

IONIZATION ENERGY LOSS; TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTORS (TRD);

DRIFT CHAMBERS;

EID: 10744231908     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.036     Document Type: Article

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