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Coordinate detectors based on thin-wall drift tubes

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Design features and basic parameters of the detectors based on straw trackers are reviewed using the example of the studies and development of trackers in a number of operating and proposed accelerator experimental facilities. The results of methodological studies aimed at qualitatively improving the spatial/time resolution and high rate capability of the detector and enhancing the performance capabilities of such detectors used for particle detection in a high multiplicity environment (and in high-luminosity experiments) are presented.

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Peshekhonov, V.D. Coordinate detectors based on thin-wall drift tubes. Phys. Part. Nuclei 46, 94–122 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779615010062

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