Experience in construction and testing of plastic limited streamer chambers

Author

Ball, A.H. ; Bard, R.L. ; Bensen, D. ; Cates, C. ; Colmer, J.D. ; Floros, P. ; Fritz, D.J. ; Goldey, P.R. ; Miller, W.W. ; Norkin, D.T. ; Rapp, P. ; Rozmarynowski, P. ; Lee, J.R. ; Sebastian, M. San ; Schultz, J. ; Skuja, A. ; Springer, R.W. ; Subramanyam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

37

Issue

2

fYear

1990

fDate

4/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

229

Abstract

The manufacture and testing of multicell limited streamer chambers for use in the hadron calorimeter of the OPAL detector and LEP (Large Electron Positron Collider) are described. All operations, from chamber cathode coating to the testing of completed subassemblies, have been performed under the same roof. With reasonable care and quality control, the established technology produced chambers several meters long with an overall success rate of about 90%. Treatment of the carbon coating with Breox B-35 was effective in eliminating uncertainties in the cathode performance

Keywords

position sensitive particle detectors; proportional counters; scintillation counters; Breox B-35; LEP; OPAL detector; cathode performance; hadron calorimeter; multicell limited streamer chambers; plastic limited streamer chambers; quality control; Cathodes; Coatings; Detectors; Electrons; Manufacturing; Performance evaluation; Plastics; Positrons; Quality control; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.106623

Filename

106623