Difference between proportional and mini drift tubes in the D0 experiment

[Federica]

Hi all,

I'm reading an article describing the D0 experiment at Fermilab during Run II. Proportional drift tubes and mini drift tubes were used to detect muons: can someone explain me the difference between these two kinds of drift tubes?

Thanks

Federica

 

[Vanadium 50]

I'm reading an article

Please, don't tell us which one. It makes the thread so much better if we have to guess.

 

[Federica]

I wanted to attach the article here but the pdf is too large. Here's the link:

https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0507191

It starts talking about proportional and mini drift tubes from page 69.

 

[Vanadium 50]

So that article, starting on page 77, does a good job of describing mini drift tubes. To get a description of the system they are replacing you need to get it from an older paper. Google had no trouble finding several.