SLAC - PUB - 5041 July 1989 WI ) TRACKING WITH WIRE CHAMBERS AT THE SSC ’ GAIL

Limitations placed on wire chambers by radiation damage and rate requirements in .3, the SSC environment, are reviewed. Possible conceptual designs for wire chamber tracking systems that meet these requirements are discussed. Computer simulation studies of tracking in such systems are presented. Simulations of events from interesting physics at the SSC, including hits from minimum bias background events, are examined. Results of some preliminary pattern recognition studies are given.