The Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers for the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consist of 3-4 layers of pressurised drift tubes on either side of a space frame carrying an optical deformation monitoring system. The chambers have to provide a track position resolution of 40 microns with a single-tube resolution of at least 80 microns and a sense wire positioning accu- racy of 20 ?microns (rms). The feasibility was demonstrated with the full-scale prototype of one of the largest MDT chambers with 432 drift tubes of 3.8 m length. For the ATLAS muon spectrometer, 88 chambers of this type have to be built. The first chamber has been completed with a wire positioning accuracy of 14 microns (rms).
@article{arxiv.1604.02259,
title = {Construction and Test of the Precision Drift Chambers for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer},
author = {F. Bauer and W. Blum and U. Bratzler and H. Dietl and S. Kotov and H. Kroha and Th. Lagouri and A. Manz and A. Ostapchuk and R. Richter and S. Schael and S. Chouridou and M. Deile and O. Kortner and A. Staude and R. Stroehmer and T. Trefzger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02259},
year = {2016}
}