Gas System for Aleph {TPC}

Oct, 1989
19 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 289 (1990) 176-184
Report number:
  • CERN-EF-89-18,
  • ALEPH-89-159,
  • TPCGEN-89-016
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Operation of the time projection chamber of the ALEPH experiment at LEP requires a high-purity argon/methane gas mixture supplied to the detector under stable conditions to ensure minimum signal attenuation throughout the 43 m 3 detector volume (max. 2.2 m drift length) and maintain near-constant electron drift velocity in the gas over extended periods of time. Design considerations for a gas system to fulfil these conditions are presented and details given of the construction, operational aspects and of the achieved performance.
  • proportional chamber: time projection
  • gas: admixture
  • argon
  • organic compounds
  • ALEPH
  • CERN LEP Stor