Drift properties of the ATLAS MDT chambers

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

Volumn 568, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 672-681

  Avramidou, R M ^a,b   Gazis, E N ^b   Veenhof, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Drift time spectra; Garfield simulation; MDT chamber; Ramsauer dip

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHOTOTUBES; SPECTROMETERS;

DRIFT TIME SPECTRA; GARFIELD SIMULATION; MDT CHAMBERS;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

EID: 33750817894     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.07.064     Document Type: Article

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