WIRE CHAMBER REQUIREMENTS AND TRACKING SIMULATION STUDIES FOR TRACKING SYSTEMS AT THE SUPERCO,NDUCTING

Limitations placed on wire chambers by radiation damage and rate require- ments in the SSC environment are reviewed. Possible conceptual designs for wire chamber tracking systems which meet these requirements are discussed. Computer simulation studies of tracking in such systems are presented. Simulations of events from interesting physics at the SSC, including hits from minimum bias background events, are examined. Results of some preliminary pattern recognition studies are given. Such computer simulation studies are necessary to determine the feasibility of wire chamber tracking systems for complex events in a high-rate environment such as the SSC.