Welcome to the LHCb Outer Tracker Twiki pages

• Main Outer Tracker Homepage
• Outer Tracker Technical Design Report
• OT Project Reviews
• Meetings and Minutes
• OT mailing list
• OTrCosmics
• OT Ageing page
• OT Gas system page
• OT Online Twiki

Phone numbers

• OT office point 8 +41 22 76 77868 77868
• OT mobile (tech) +41 76 487 2196 162196
• OT mobile (elec) +41 76 487 2586 162586
• Antonio Pellegrino +41 76 487 2572 162572
• Sebastian Bachmann +41 76 487 2038 162038
• Nikhef Office +41 22 76 76309/74024 76309/74024
• Heidelberg Office +41 22 76 75826 75826
• Dirk Wiedner +41 76 487 5264 165264
• Niels Tuning +31 6 26628355

Documentation

Outer Tracker Software:

• Outer Tracker Software Twiki

Outer Tracker Specific Documentation:

• Notes:
  • Public LHCb notes: Outer Tracker
  • Internal LHCb notes: Outer Tracker

• Talks:
  • CERN agenda: Tracking
  • CERN agenda: LHCb weeks

Ageing:

• Reviews:
  • J.Va'vra, Review of Wire Chamber Aging NIM A252(1986)547
  • J.A. Kadyk, Wire chamber aging NIM A300(1991)436
• International Workshop on Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors, DESY October 2001
  • F.Sauli, Fundamental understanding of aging process: review of workshop results NIM A515(2003)358
  • Summaries of the sessions
  • M. Titov et al., Summary and Outlook of the International Workshop on Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors hep-ex/0204005, 2001

• OT meeting LHCb week 8 March 2006
• Ageing Workshop 3 April 2006
• Ageing Workshop 17 May 2006
• OT meeting LHCb week 31 May 2006
• Ageing Workshop 12 July 2006
• OT meeting LHCb week 12 Sep 2006
• Ageing Discussion 13 Oct 2006
• Ageing Workshop 10 Nov 2006
• Heating Discussion 25 Jan 2007
• Vienna Conference on Instrumentation 19-24 Feb 2007
• OT meeting LHCb week 14 Mar 2007

• S. Bachmann, IEEE2004 NSS-MIC conference, 2004, Ageing Studies for the Straw Tube Detectors for the LHCb Outer Tracking System
• S. Bachmann, 10th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, 2004, The Straw Tube Technology for the LHCb Outer Tracking System
• M. Capeans et al., LHCb note 2004-050, LHCb Gas Based Detectors and Ageing
• S. Bachmann, LHCb note 2002-031, Specifications for the drift gas quality of the outer tracking system
• T. Akesson et al., NIM A515, p166, 2003, Aging studies for the ATLAS TRT
• F. Guarino et al., ATL-INDET 99-011, 1999, Outgassing studies of materials for the TRT construction

Electronic

• Howto powerup the chips

Gas Detectors in General:

• Books:
  • W.Blum and L.Rolandi, Particle Detection with Drift Chambers, Springer Verlag, 1993

• RichPublications:
  • F.Sauli, CERN 77-09, 1977, Principles of Operation of Multiwire Proportional and Drift Chambers
  • A.Sharma, SLAC-JOURNAL-ICFA-16-3, 1998, Properties of some gas mixtures used in tracking detectors
  • A. Andronic, S.Biagi, et al., physics/0402044, 2004, Drift Velocity and Gain in Argon- and Xenon-based Mixtures
  • H. Albrecht et al., NIM A541, p610, 2005, The Outer Tracker Detector of the HERA-B Experiment. Part II: Front-End Electronics
  • T. Akesson et al., NIM A522, p25, 2004, Operation of the ATLAS TRT under very high irradiation at the CERN LHC (gas choice)

• Talks:
  • Werner Riegler: LHCb Muon chambers (MWPC) - Engeneering Design Review

• Links:
  • Particle Data Group: Particle Detectors
  • Particle Detector BriefBook
  • Useful references for Gas detectors (GSI)
  • Garfield
    • Examples
    • ATLAS TRT straws
  • Straw tube detectors - Introduction (Heidelberg)

• Some more articles:
  • E.Klema and J.Allen, Phys.Rev. 77, 661, 1950, Drift Velocities of Electrons in Argon, Nitrogen, and Argon-Nitrogen Mixtures
  • M.Uman and G.Warfield, Phys.Rev. 120, 1542, 1960, Theoretical Study of the Electron Drift Velocity in Binary Gas Mixtures with Applications to Ar-CO2 and Ar-N2 Mixtures
  • T.D.Strickler and E.T.Arakawa, J.Chem.Phys. 41, 1783, 1964, Optical Emission from Argon Excited by Alpha Particles: Quenching Studies
  • J.C. Armitage et al., NIM A271, p588, 1988, A study of the effect of methane and carbon dioxide concentration on gas amplification in argon based gas mixtures
  • R.Veenhof, ALICE-INT-2003-029, 2003, Choosing a Gas Mixture for the ALICE TPC
  • W.Hulsbergen et al., HERA-B-00-014, 2000, Calibration of HERA-B Outer Tracker Chambers in a Cosmic Ray Setup at NIKHEF
  • M.Deile and N.P.Hessey, ATL-MUON-99-002, 1999, Obtaining the Space-Time Relationship of Drift Tubes from the Drift-Time Spectrum
  • M.Needham, LHCb-2003-020, 2003, Tracking Performance and Robustness Tests

Useful Theses:

• H.Tolsma, PhD thesis, Univ. Twente, Enschede, 1996, The Honeycomb Strip Chamber: A two coordinate and high precision muon detector
• A.Schreiner, PhD thesis, Humboldt-Univ., Berlin, 2001, Aging Studies of Drift Chambers of the HERA-B Outer Tracker using CF4-based Gases
• R.M. van der Eijk, PhD thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, 2002 Track reconstruction in the LHCb experiment
• M. Walter, PhD thesis, Ruprecht-Karl-Univ., Heidelberg, 2005, Entwicklung, Bau und Alterungsstudien von Straw Tube Driftkammern fuer das Aussere Spurkammersystem von LHCb
• D. Wiedner, PhD thesis Ruprecht-Karl-Univ., Heidelberg, 2004, Design and Implementation of the Readout Electronics of the LHCb Outer Tracker
• L.B.A. Hommels, PhD thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, 2006, The Tracker in the Trigger of LHCb

Other:

• Seva Suvorov: Gas Processes in Outer Tracker Straws June 2005

-- NielsTuning - 2 Nov 2006