A multiwire proportional chamber for precision studies of neutron β decay angular correlations

T. M. Ito; R. Carr; B. W. Filippone; J. W. Martin; B. Plaster; G. Rybka; J. Yuan

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2006.11.026

A multiwire proportional chamber for precision studies of neutron β decay angular correlations

T. M. Ito
, R. Carr
, B. W. Filippone
, J. W. Martin
, B. Plaster
, G. Rybka
, J. Yuan

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A new multiwire proportional chamber (MWPC) was designed and constructed for precision studies of neutron β decay angular correlations. Its design has several novel features, including the use of low pressure neopentane as the MWPC gas and an entrance window made of thin Mylar sheet reinforced with Kevlar fibers. In the initial off-line performance tests, the gas gain of neopentane and the position resolution were studied.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	676-686
Número de páginas	11
Publicación	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volumen	571
N.º	3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2006.11.026
Estado	Published - feb 11 2007

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Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the technical support of R. Cortez and J. Pendlay. We thank J. Mohnke for his suggestion of using neopentane as the MWPC gas, P. Chan for his help with setting up the wire winding machine, and E. Lin and C. Kessens for their help with the thin window development. We thank D. Snowden-Ifft of Occidental College for generously loaning us his wire winding machine. We thank C. Morris for various valuable suggestions. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation.

Financiación

We gratefully acknowledge the technical support of R. Cortez and J. Pendlay. We thank J. Mohnke for his suggestion of using neopentane as the MWPC gas, P. Chan for his help with setting up the wire winding machine, and E. Lin and C. Kessens for their help with the thin window development. We thank D. Snowden-Ifft of Occidental College for generously loaning us his wire winding machine. We thank C. Morris for various valuable suggestions. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation.

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National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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Ito, T. M., Carr, R., Filippone, B. W., Martin, J. W., Plaster, B., Rybka, G., & Yuan, J. (2007). A multiwire proportional chamber for precision studies of neutron β decay angular correlations. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 571(3), 676-686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2006.11.026

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En: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 571, N.º 3, 11.02.2007, p. 676-686.

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