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Particle Detection with Drift Chambers

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Walter Blum

    1. Werner-Heisenberg-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany

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  2. Luigi Rolandi

    1. Div. PPE, CERN, Genève 23, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Accelerator Physics (ACCPHYS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Gas Ionization by Charged Particles and by Laser Rays

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 1-49

  3. The Drift of Electrons and Ions in Gases

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 50-98

  4. Electrostatics of Wire Grids and Field Cages

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 99-123

  5. Amplification of Ionization

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 124-154

  6. Creation of the Signal

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 155-166

  7. Coordinate Measurement and Fundamental Limits of Accuracy

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 167-200

  8. Geometrical Track Parameters and Their Errors

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 201-223

  9. Ion Gates

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 224-239

  10. Particle Identification by Measurement of Ionization

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 240-269

  11. Existing Drift Chambers — An Overview

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 270-319

  12. Drift-Chamber Gases

    • Walter Blum, Luigi Rolandi
    Pages 320-344

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 345-349
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A drift chamber is an apparatus for measuring the space coordinates of the trajectory of a charged particle. This is achieved by detecting the ionization electrons produced by the charged particle in the gas of the chamber and by measuring their drift times and arrival positions on sensitive electrodes. When the multiwire proportional chamber, or 'Charpak cham­ ber' as we used to call it, was introduced in 1968, its authors had already noted that the time of a signal could be useful for a coordinate determination, and first studies with a drift chamber were made by Bressani, Charpak, Rahm and ZupanCic in 1969. When the first operational drift-chamber system with electric circuitry and readout was built by Walenta, Heintze and Schiirlein in 1971, a new instrument for particle experiments had appeared. A broad study of the behaviour of drifting electrons in gases began in laboratories where there was interest in the detection of particles. Diffusion and drift of electrons and ions in gases were at that time well-established subjects in their own right. The study of the influ­ ence of magnetic fields on these processes was completed in the 1930s and all fundamental equations were contained in the article by W.P. Allis in the Encyclopedia of Physics [ALL 56]. It did not take very long until the particle physicists learnt to apply the methods of the Maxwell-Boltzmann equations and of the electron-swarm experi­ ments that had been developed for the study of atomic properties.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Werner-Heisenberg-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany

    Walter Blum

  • Div. PPE, CERN, Genève 23, Switzerland

    Luigi Rolandi

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