Behaviour of microstrip gas chamber in strong magnetic field

Abstract The behaviour of the microstrip gas chamber has been studied in strong magnetic fields (up to 2.3 T). An almost complete compensation of the effect due to the E × B factor, which is otherwise responsible for a degradation of the spatial resolution, has been obtained by applying a small tilt to the chamber equal to the Lorentz angle. Different. gas mixtures have been studied: an improvement in the resolution has been achieved using gas mixtures with higher cluster density (DME-CO 2 , DME-CF 4 ).