Design and performance of a streamer chamber for use in neutral beams

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Abstract

A streamer chamber has recently been operated in a neutral beam at the Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator in an experiment to study the decay KL0π+ππ0. Because of its extremely light construction (an average thickness of 0.2 g/cm2), the chamber could be inserted directly into the neutral beam, which consisted of approximately 104 neutrons per KL0 meson, without generating large numbers of background tracks due to neutron interactions. The events of interest appeared as neutral V's in the chamber and were recorded with the high multiple track efficiency and isotropic detection efficiency characteristic of the streamer mechanism. The chamber was operated in a magnetic field and the tracks were directly photographed in 90° stereo. The construction of the chamber, its operation, and properties such as spatial resolution, sensitive time, and track distortions are discussed.

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Work supported by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

a

Now at Laboratoire de L'Accélérateur Linéare, Orsay, France.

b

Now at University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

c

Now at High Energy Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

d

Now at University of California, Santa Barbara, California.

e

Now at Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, Didcot, Berkshire, England.

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