Straw chambers operating in vacuum for particle tracking and transition radiation detection in accelerator and space experiments

We have designed and tested some straw tubes prototype detectors to investigate the possibility to operate a full size chamber with extremely reduced gas leaks in a high vacuum environment in accelerator experiments or in sealed mode for astroparticle physics researches in outer space. After complet...

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Published in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 1996-10, Vol.381 (1), p.39-48
Main Authors: Barbarito, E., Chiaradia, M.T., De Cataldo, G., Favuzzi, C., Giglietto, N., Mongelli, M., Perchiazzi, M., Rainò, A., Sacchetti, A., Spinelli, P.
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Language:English
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Summary:We have designed and tested some straw tubes prototype detectors to investigate the possibility to operate a full size chamber with extremely reduced gas leaks in a high vacuum environment in accelerator experiments or in sealed mode for astroparticle physics researches in outer space. After completing the tests we have finally built a tracking detector of 1300 channels which has run in a vacuum chamber in the experiment E864 at BNL with a leak of 7 × 10 −3Torr l/s compatible with the permeability of the materials used.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/0168-9002(96)00674-2