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Report number	LHCb-PROC-2009-020 ; LHCb-CONF-2009-020 ; CERN-LHCb-CONF-2009-020
Title	Construction, Installation and Commissioning of a High-Efficiency and High-Resolution Straw Tube Tracker for the LHCb experiment
Author(s)	Jansen, F (NIKHEF, Amsterdam)
Publication	2010
Imprint	24 Jul 2009
Number of pages	4
In:	Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 617 (2010) 23-26
In:	11th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors on Frontier Detectors For Frontier Physics, La Biodola, Italy, 24 - 30 May 2009, pp.23-26
DOI	10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.078
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; LHCb
Free keywords	LHCb ; Tracking detectors ; Gas detectors ; Straw tubes
Abstract	The LHCb experiment is a single arm spectrometer, designed to study CP violation in B-decays and search for new physics in rare B-decays at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In such studies it is crucial to accurately and efficiently track the charged decay products in the high-density environment of the LHC. For this, the Outer Tracker (OT) was constructed, consisting of 55,000 straw tubes and covering an area of 360m2 of module layers. The detector is foreseen to operate under large particle rates, up to 100kHz/cm per straw in the region closest to the beam. Before and during installation the detector modules and Front End (FE) electronics have been extensively tested. The detector has been installed and commissioned with the help of cosmic ray events.
Referee	Pellegrino, A
Copyright/License	Preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0)

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