Title :
The LHCb outer tracker detector design and production
Author_Institution :
NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Abstract :
The outer tracker detector of the LHCb experiment is a gas filled detector based on straw tube technology. It comprises three stations each consisting of multiple layers of wires with both vertical orientation and ±5° stereo angles. The stations are designed to be built of modules which are mechanically stable, gas tight and capable of stand-alone operation. This paper describes the design and mass production procedures of outer tracker modules and discusses the quality assurance programme. Test results on the first modules produced are included.
Keywords :
drift chambers; position sensitive particle detectors; LHCb experiment; LHCb outer tracker detector; gas filled detector; gas tight modules; mechanically stable modules; outer tracker modules; quality assurance programme; stand-alone operation; stereo angles; straw tube technology; Detectors; Large Hadron Collider; Mass production; Particle beams; Particle tracking; Quality assurance; Spatial resolution; Spectroscopy; Testing; Wires;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8700-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1082-3654
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462281
