The Central Drift Chamber for GlueX

• Published in: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Vol. 962; no. C
• Main Authors: Jarvis, N. S., Meyer, C. A., Zihlmann, B., Staib, M., Austregesilo, A., Barbosa, F., Dickover, C., Razmyslovich, V., Taylor, S., Van Haarlem, Y., Visser, G., Whitlatch, T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier 01-05-2020
• Subjects: 29.40.Cs; 29.40.Gx; OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
• ISSN: 0168-9002; 1872-9576

The Central Drift Chamber is a straw-tube wire chamber of cylindrical structure located surrounding the target inside the bore of the GlueX spectrometer solenoid. Its purpose is to detect and track charged particles with momenta as low as 0.25 GeV/c and to identify low-momentum protons via energy loss. The construction of the detector is described and its operation and calibration are discussed in detail. The design goal of 150 μm in position resolution has been reached.