Study of inclined particle tracks in micro strip gas counters

Abstract The response of micro strip gas counters (MSGC) has been studied for particle tracks with inclined incidence with respect to the strip plane. The setup consisted of four 10 × 10 cm 2 MSGC detectors arranged in a cosmic ray hodoscope with a trigger threshold of 300 MeV/ c for muons. Results are given for the collected charge, the spatial resolution and the detection efficiencies. A Monte Carlo simulation has been used to understand the effects of cross talk in the data and to extrapolate the data to other angles of incidence.