Performance of wire spark chambers with large area and two coordinate read-out

doi:10.1016/0029-554X(67)90074-2

Nuclear Instruments and Methods

Volume 46, Issue 2, 2 January 1967, Pages 208-212

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Abstract

Wire spark chambers up to 50 × 50 cm² with a ferrite core storage have been built and tested. The difficulties arising from the large capacity of large area chambers were overcome by limiting the spark current and damping its oscillations. The arrangement of the chamber allows also the high voltage electrodes to be used for the determination of a spark coordinate. Thus with crossed ground and high-voltage-electrode wires one chamber gives two coordinates simultaneously. Efficiencies of 98% and spatial resolutions of approximately ± 0.3 mm have been obtained. Measurements of the sensitive time were also performed.

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Performance of wire spark chambers with large area and two coordinate read-out

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