We describe the design, construction, readout, tests, and performance of planar drift chambers, based on 5 mm diameter copperized Mylar and Kapton straws, used in an experimental search for rare kaon decays. The experiment took place in the high-intensity neutral beam at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron of Brookhaven National Laboratory, using a neutral beam stop, two analyzing dipoles, and redundant particle identification to remove backgrounds.
@article{arxiv.physics/0308047,
title = {A straw drift chamber spectrometer for studies of rare kaon decays},
author = {K. Lang and D. Ambrose and C. Arroyo and M. Bachman and D. Connor and M. Eckhause and K. M. Ecklund and S. Graessle and M. Hamela and S. Hamilton and A. D. Hancock and K. Hartman and M. Hebert and C. H. Hoff and G. W. Hoffmann and G. M. Irwin and J. R. Kane and N. Kanematsu and Y. Kuang and R. Lee and M. Marcin and R. D. Martin and J. McDonough and A. Milder and W. R. Molzon and D. Ouimette and M. Pommot-Maia and M. Proga and P. J. Riley and J. L. Ritchie and P. D. Rubin and V. I. Vassilakopoulos and B. Ware and R. E. Welsh and S. G. Wojcicki and S. Worm},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0308047},
year = {2009}
}