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DTBX/CSC

The Drift Tube system consists of 12 sectors per wheel, each having a length of 3 m and covering an angle of 30 degrees (in the r- plane). In each of the 4 muon stations a sector covers the information of 12 drift-planes arranged in 3 ``superlayers'' with 4 planes each. Two of the superlayers are used to measure the coordinates, the third one can be used to measure , but these data are not yet included in this analysis. The Drift Tubes are equipped with a chamber trigger logic that uses a mean-timer technique to identify also the bunch crossing from which the muons originate (Bunch and Time Identifier BTI). Each track crossing a superlayer gives a track-segment with a given position, angle and ``quality'' (depending on the number of planes used). The track pairs from the inner and outer superlayers per station are combined by the Track Correlator (see [1]). Using the position and angle information of one track segment, the Muon Track Finder (MTF) [5] extrapolates it to the next muon station and checks if any of the track-segments found there fulfil a certain matching criterion to form a track.

After successful extrapolations and the use of ``quality'' criteria to get rid of ghosts and probably bad tracks one gets the track parameters. Either a bending angle or the difference of the azimuthal angles of two stations is used via lookup tables to assign to a track. is evaluated from the wheel position and from the Track Correlator. The lookup tables used have been created by using 1000 muons of fixed inside a wheel with a flat distribution. The mean value of the difference between the azimuthal angles of the hits in two stations will then constitute the functional relation for the assignment. The final selection of the 4 muons with the highest (per ring) follows the process of extrapolation, track finding and assignment. The assigned values for and are given on a nonlinear scale still under discussion, as well as the size and definition of the ``quality'' variable. At the moment 10 values in (0., 0.19, 0.23, 0.28, 0.42, 0.56, 0.66, 0.76, 0.88, 0.98) and 28 values in are foreseen (2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100, 120, 140, 170, 200, 250 GeV/c). Only tracks found consistently in at least two muon stations are regarded as reconstructed.

  
Table 2: Information delivered by the DTBX/CSC Trigger.


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Norbert Neumeister
Fri Jul 25 14:40:08 MET DST 1997