Limited Streamer Tubes for the Babar Instrumented Flux Return Upgrade
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Starting from the very beginning of their operation the efficiency of the RPC chambers in the BaBar Instrumented Flux Return (IFR) has suffered serious degradation. After intensive investigation, various remediation efforts had been carried out, but without success. As a result the BaBar collaboration decided to replace the dying barrel RPC chambers about two years ago. To study the feasibility of using the Limited Streamer Tube (LST) as the replacement of RPC we carried out an R&D program that has resulted in BaBar’s deciding to replace the barrel RPC’s with LST’s. In this report we summarize the major detector R&D results, and leave other issues of the IFR system upgrade to the future publications.
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