Construction and test of the precision drift chambers for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer

Author

Bauer, E. ; Blum, W. ; Bratzler, U. ; Dietl, H. ; Kotov, S. ; Kroha, H. ; Lagouri, Th. ; Manz, A. ; Ostapchuk, A. ; Richter, R. ; Schael, S. ; Chouridou, S. ; Deile, M. ; Kortne, O. ; Staude, A. ; Stroehmer, R. ; Trefzger, T.

Author_Institution

Max-Planck-Inst. fur Phys., Munchen, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

42501

Abstract

The Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers for the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consist of 3-4 layers of pressurized drift tubes on either side of a space frame carrying an optical deformation monitoring system. The chambers have to provide a track position resolution of 40 μm with a single-tube resolution of at least 80 μm and a sense wire positioning accuracy of 20 μm (rms). The feasibility was demonstrated with the full-scale prototype of one of the largest MDT chambers with 432 drift tubes of 3.8 m length. For the ATLAS muon spectrometer, 88 chambers of this type have to be built. The first chamber has been completed with a wire positioning accuracy of 15 μm (rms)

Keywords

drift chambers; muon detection; particle spectrometers; ATLAS Muon Spectrometer; LHC; Large Hadron Collider; Monitored Drift Tube chambers; optical deformation monitoring system; precision drift chambers; pressurized drift tubes; sense wire positioning accuracy; single-tube resolution; track position resolution; Large Hadron Collider; Mesons; Monitoring; Optical sensors; Production; Prototypes; Spectroscopy; Superconducting magnets; Testing; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6503-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949070

Filename

949070