CERN Accelerating science

Article
Report number	CERN-EP-2000-039
Title	Dependence of Drift Tube Performance on the Anode Wire Diameter
Author(s)	Deile, M ; Aleksa, Martin ; Dubbert, J ; Fabjan, Christian Wolfgang ; Gruhn, Charles R ; Hessey, N P ; Riegler, W ; Sammer, T ; Staude, A
Affiliation	(Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München) ; (CERN) ; (Max-Planck-Inst. München)
Publication	2000
Imprint	14 Feb 2000
Number of pages	14
In:	Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 449 (2000) 528
DOI	10.1016/S0168-9002(99)01471-0
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Abstract	Cylindrical pressurized drift tubes with different anode wire diameters wereoperated in a 170 GeV muon test beam. The dependences of spatialresolution, efficiency and streamer probability on the anode wirediameter were measured. The resolution measurements are compared with a simulation.

Corresponding record in: Inspire
Email contact: [email protected]