Physics – Instrumentation and Detectors
Scientific paper
2007-01-10
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A576:312-330,2007
Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
38 pages, 20 figures. v2: Added clarifications about trigger efficiency, momentum resolution and alignment precision. Correcte
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nima.2007.03.025
In this paper we describe the operation and performance of the HERA-B Outer Tracker, a 112674 channel system of planar drift tube layers. The performance of the HERA-B Outer Tracker system fullfilled all requirements for stable and efficient operation in a hadronic environment, thus confirming the adequacy of the honeycomb drift tube technology and of the front-end readout system. The detector was stably operated with a gas gain of 30000 in an Ar/CF4/CO2 (65:30:5) gas mixture, yielding a good efficiency for triggering and track reconstruction, larger than 95 % for tracks with momenta above 5 GeV/c. The hit resolution of the drift cells was 300 to 320 micrometers and the relative momentum resolution can be described as: sigma(p)/p (in %) = (1.61 +- 0.02) + (0.0051 +- 0.0006) p. At the end of the HERA-B running no aging effects in the Outer Tracker cells were observed.
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