Simulations in the development of the barrel muon chambers for the CMS detector at LHC

• Published in: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Vol. 405; no. 1; pp. 20 - 29
• Main Authors: Benvenuti, A., Berdugo, J., Bethke, S., Cerrada, M., Colino, N., Fehr, B., Gasparini, F., Giordano, V., Guaita, P., Ladrón de Guevara, P., Marcellini, S., Meneguzzo, A., Mocholi, J., Navarria, F.L., Pegoraro, M., Reithler, H., Romero, L., Ronchese, P., Rovelli, T., Sartori, P., Schwarthoff, H., Stanco, L., Tano, V., Teykal, H., Torassa, E., Tutas, J., Wagner, H., Zotto, P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01-03-1998
• ISSN: 0168-9002; 1872-9576
• DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(97)01186-8

The development of the barrel drift chambers for the CMS muon detector at the CERN
Large Hadron Collider is supported by a variety of simulation calculations, based on the GARFIELD drift chamber simulation program and the GEANT detector simulation package. This study surveys the results influencing the actual chamber design. The dependence of the drift cell performance on shape and position of the cell electrodes as well as on the mechanical tolerances is shown. The results obtained for space-time relation and spatial resolution are in good agreement to test beam measurements on prototypes.