Development of a multiwire proportional chamber with good tolerance to burst hits

Interlaboratory Development of an Integrated Circuit for Multiwire Proportional Chambers

A multiwire proportional chamber for precision studies of neutron b decay angular correlations

A new multiwire proportional chamber (MWPC) was designed and constructed for precision studies of neutron b decay angular correlations. Its design has several novel features, including the use of low pressure neopentane as the MWPC gas and an entrance window made of thin Mylar sheet reinforced with Kevlar fibers. In the initial off-line performance tests, the gas gain of neopentane and the posi...

A Multiwire Proportional Chamber for Precision Studies of Neutron β Decay Angular Correlations

A new multiwire proportional chamber was designed and constructed for precision studies of neutron β decay angular correlations. Its design has several novel features, including the use of low pressure neopentane as the MWPC gas and an entrance window made of thin Mylar sheet reinforced with Kevlar fibers. In the initial offline performance tests, the gas gain of neopentane and the position res...

Multiwire proportional chambers in the HERMESexperimentA

The multiwire proportional chambers of the HERMES spectrometer are described. The chambers are located in the spectrometer magnet gap which imposed strong constraints on their design. Non-ammable gas mixture of Ar(65%), CO 2 (30%) and CF 4 (5%) is successfully used with an eeciency plateau 500V wide. The readout is performed by means of the recently developed LeCroy PCOS4 acquisition system upg...

The High-density Multiwire Drift Chamber

A multiwire propor t ional chamber , with a high-densi ty drift space at tached, has been developed as a posit ion-sensit ive detector for nonioniz ing radiat ion. A chamber with a 5 g /cm a d r i f t s p a c e , compris ing a l eadb i smuth matr ix o f 1 m m square holes on a 1.5 m m pi tch has been investigated. For 0.66 MeV pho tons a detection efficiency o f 5%, combined with a spatial reso...