Production and quality control of MWPC for the LHCb muon system at CERN

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 336-340

  Barbosa, A F ^b   Dumps, R ^a   Graulich, J S ^a   Kachtchouk, A ^a   De Andrade Filho, L Manhaes ^b   Polycarpo, E ^b,c   Riegler, W ^a   Schmidt, B ^a   Schneider, T ^a   Souvorov, V ^a,d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gain measurement; Production and quality control; Proportional counters

Indexed keywords

GAIN MEASUREMENT; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS; QUALITY CONTROL; SOLDERING;

GAIN UNIFORMITY MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-VOLTAGE TRAINING; MULTI-WIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBER; WIRE TENSION;

GAS DETECTORS;

EID: 33645654762     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.869837     Document Type: Article

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