Multiwire and drift proportional chambers
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- other
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 31 (10) , 23-30
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2994772
Abstract
In some kinds of experiments, the accurate localization of ionizing particles is essential. Multiwire proportional chambers and drift chambers, first developed in the late 1960's, are now routine tools in such applications. Although the structure of these detectors is very simple, our understanding of them has evolved rapidly in recent years, as has the variety of modes in which they have been operated. Here we shall consider briefly the operation of these detectors. Then we can proceed to a discussion of the latest developments, which aim to obtain information on the reaction products of the most complex high‐energy collisions, with the utmost accuracy and efficiency. (Detailed descriptions of the detectors and their properties can now be found abundantly in the literature, which is extensively reviewed in references 3 and 4.)Keywords
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