Multi-anode wire straw tube tracker

Performance of a multianode straw tube detector

“…In an earlier paper [1], we proposed a multi anode straw detector and constructed a prototype to demonstrate its feasibility. Normally there is one anode wire inside a straw tube.…”

“…One shortcoming is stereo configuration in a tracking system. This is not a problem for a plane geometry, but when a 22 cylindrical geometry is required, the design becomes complicated because unlike an axial tube, a stereo 23 tube, which has an angle with respect axial tubes, makes the surface contact only at the center of the tubesupporting cylinder 1 . For a multi anode detector, a stereo detector can be simply constructed by slightly rotating one end plug with respect to the other end plug and be stacked like non-stereo detectors on the hits per track is about four, implying that the material due to the tubes is lower by a factor of four.…”