Construction and test of a full-scale prototype of an ATLAS muon spectrometer tracking chamber

We have built a full scale prototype of the precision tracking chambers (Monitored Drift Tubes, MDT) for the muon spectrometer of the Atlas Experiment at the LHC collider. This article describes in detail the procedures used in constructing the drift tubes and in assembling the chamber. It presents data showing that the required mechanical precision has been achieved as well as test beam results displaying the over all chamber performance. The article presents data demonstrating the derivation of the space-time relation of the drift tubes by the autocalibration procedure using real data from the tracks crossing the chamber. Autocalibration is the procedure which must be used during run time. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved

Calypso: a full-scale MDT prototype for the ATLAS muon spectrometer

We present a full-scale MDT prototype for the Atlas muon spectrometer. The chamber consists of two multilayers made of three layers of 96 drift tubes each. The main feature of this chamber is the very accurate mechanical construction (20 mu m accuracy on single wire positioning) together with a very good individual tube spatial resolution. In this paper we present results both on the mechanical accuracy of the chamber, and on the performances obtained on the H8 test beam at CERN. In particular, we present an autocalibration method that allows to obtain the space-to-time relation of the tubes with a systematic error less than 20 mu m, the space resolution and the efficiency of the chamber. (C) Published by 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved

Construction and test of a full-scale prototype of an ATLAS muon spectrometer tracking chamber

We have built a full scale prototype of the precision tracking chambers(Monitored Drift Tube,MDT)for the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS experiment ar the LHC Collider. This article describes in detail the procedures used in constructing the drift tubes and in assembling the chamber

Technical design report for the PANDA (AntiProton Annihilations at Darmstadt) Straw Tube Tracker

<p>This document describes the technical layout and the expected performance of the Straw Tube Tracker (STT), the main tracking detector of the PANDA target spectrometer. The STT encloses a Micro-Vertex-Detector (MVD) for the inner tracking and is followed in beam direction by a set of GEM stations. The tasks of the STT are the measurement of the particle momentum from the reconstructed trajectory and the measurement of the specific energy loss for a particle identification. Dedicated simulations with full analysis studies of certain proton-antiproton reactions, identified as being benchmark tests for the whole PANDA scientific program, have been performed to test the STT layout and performance. The results are presented, and the time lines to construct the STT are described.</p>