The BaBaR drift chamber project

• Published in: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 1998-05, Vol.409 (1-3), p.46-52
• Main Authors: Boucham, A., Boutigny, D., Bonis, I.De, Jeremie, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lafaye, R., Goodenough, C., Hearty, C., Heise, J., Kelsey, M., McKenna, J., Dorfan, D., Fernandez, J., Sadrozinski, H., Schumm, B., Spencer, N., Harton, J., Malchow, R., Smy, M., Warner, D., Broomer, B., Erdos, E., Ford, W.T., Gritsan, A., Johnson, D.R., Krieg, H., Roy, J., Park, H., Rankin, P., Smith, J.G., Gaddi, A., Morganti, M., Raffaelli, F., Borsato, E., Caracciolo, R., Corso, F.Dal, Fanin, C., Morandin, M., Posocco, M., Santi, S., Stroili, R., Torassa, E., Voci, C., Bronzini, F., Buccheri, A., Ferroni, F., Lamanna, E., Mazzoni, M.A., Morganti, S., Piredda, G., Santacesaria, R., Dow, S., Karcher, A., Levi, M., Lippe, H.von der, Momayezi, M., Bard, R., Dallapiccola, C., Fong, D., Jawahery, H., Miller, W., Cowan, R.F., Yamamoto, R.K., Britton, D.I., Fernholz, R., Houde, M., MacFarlane, D.B., Patel, P.M., Trischuk, J., Beaulieu, M., Martin, J.-P., Taras, P., Woch, A., Zacek, V., Lu, C., McDonald, K.T., Smith, A.J.S., III, W.R.Sands, Bajic, A., Boyarski, A., Boyce, R., Coupal, D., Coward, D., Harris, J., Hodgson, J., McDougald, M., Morii, M., Nelson, D., Palrang, M., Sciolla, G., Schaffner, S., Snyder, A., Wagner, S., Henderson, R., Khan, N., Pitman, D., Roney, J.M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0168-9002; 1872-9576
• DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(97)01232-1

The BaBar Drift Chamber is now under construction. We review its design, the progress in the construction of the components, the plan for assembly and stringing and we present test results obtained with a prototype exposed at SLAC to cosmic rays. We also report on projected dE/dx performance from beam tests done with a chamber with a different cell design.