HOW WE ARE CONSRUCTING OUR CHAMBERS?
Given the large area of the muon spectrometer it was necessary to devise a cheap but precise means of capturing the data. Several types of coordinate detectors are used at the MUON system. I am talking now about MDT detectors only which covered the 98.6% of full area is covered by ATLAS Muon system
ATLAS has opted for a system of tubes (Monitored Drift Tubes chamber or MDT-chamber) grouped in 1200 chambers.
From mentioned above it should be clear that the process of MDT chamber construction and test is naturally divided into two parts:
- Tube assembling (wiring) and test.
- MDT Chamber assembling and test