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Report number	CERN-OPEN-97-032
Title	Recent developments in gas tracking detectors for high luminosities
Author(s)	Sharma, A
Affiliation	(GSI Darmstadt)
Publication	1997
Imprint	10 Oct 1997
Number of pages	6
In:	International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics, Jerusalem, Israel, 19 - 25 Aug 1997, pp.1071-1076
DOI	10.1007/978-3-642-59982-8_202
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN SPS ; CERES NA45
Abstract	With the high luminosities of upcoming colliders, the frontiers of present generation gas tracking detectors have been pushed, resulting in a large number of innovations in their design, technology and readout systems of which I will discuss some examples. The ATLAS muon spectrometer despite comprising 'simple' proportional tubes, has been extensively studied to better understand and optimize its performance inclusive of the front-end electronics. The MicroStrip Gas Chambers have come long way since their introduction, their spin-offs being Micro-Gap Chambers and the MICRODOT chambers which are described. The introduction of a novel device called the Gas Electron Multiplier GEM, seems promising, and is being considered by HERA-B for improved reliability.