Construction and test of the final CMS Barrel Drift Tube Muon Chamber prototype

M Aguilar-Benı́tez ,F Voetee,J Salicio ,L Romero ,S Ventura ,S Lacaprara ,I Lippi ,C Montanari ,M Guerzoni ,V Giordano ,E Torassa ,M Wegner ,S Paoletti ,Marco Dallavalle ,E Migliore ,T Rovelli ,J Mocholı́ ,M Passaseo ,P Ronchese ,H Reithler ,M Arneodo ,A Fanfani ,Juan Lieber Marin ,Antônio Rossi ,A C Benvenuti ,U Dosselli ,A Romero ,A Montanari ,M Pegoraro ,S Marcellini ,M Cerrada ,T Steinbeck ,P Giacomelli ,R Cirio ,A Staiano ,A Vitelli ,S Maselli ,C Grandi ,J Puerta ,S Bethke ,A T Meneguzzo ,R Travaglini ,U Gasparini ,P Zotto ,C Peroni ,R Sacchi ,C Willmott ,F Gonella ,N Colino ,M K Daniel ,M De Giorgi ,J.c Oller ,P Guaita ,F Odorici ,V Monaco ,K Banicz ,D Dattola ,F Gasparini ,E Conti ,M Benettoni ,J Alberdi ,R Martinelli ,C Fanin ,M C Fouz ,L Ventura ,F Daudo ,G Zumerle

doi:10.1016/s0168-9002(01)01227-x

Abstract

A prototype of the CMS Barrel Muon Detector incorporating all the features of the final chambers was built using the mass production assembly procedures and tools. The performance of this prototype was studied in a muon test beam at CERN and the results obtained are presented in this paper.

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