Performance of a prototype of the CMS central detector

Adriani, O.; Angelini, F.; Bacchetta, N.; Bagliesi, G.; Barichello, G.; Basti, A.; Bellazzini, R.; Bisello, D.; Bondar, A.; Bozzo, Marco; Brez, A.; Brom, J.; Caner, A.; Carosi, R.; Castaldi, R.; Clergeau, J.; Contardo, D.; Dell'Orso, R.; Focardi, E.; French, M.; Giraldo, A.; Hall, G.; Hammarström, R.; Haroutunian, R.; Jones, L.; Kachelhoffer, G.; Karimaki, V.; Kryn, D.; Loreti, M.; Ladziński, T.; Macevoy, B.; Markou, A.; Massai, M.; Messineo, A.; Meschini, M.; Millmore, M.; Morelli, A.; Meyer, T.; Nagaslaev, V.; Paccagnella, A.; Pallares, A.; Pantano, D.; Parodi, Fabrizio; Parrini, G.; Peisert, A.; Qian, S.; Raffaelli, F.; Raymond, M.; Raffo, F.; Ribeiro, R.; Riester, J.; Runolfsson, O.; Sachdeva, R.; Shekhtman, L.; Smadja, G.; Spandre, G.; Spezziga, M.; Tonelli, G.; Toropin, A.; Velde, C. V.; Vanlaer, P.; Vannini, C.; Verdini, P.; Vitè, D.; Wheadon, R.; Zevgolatakos, E.

doi:10.1016/0168-9002(95)00641-9

A prototype of the barrel Tracking Detector of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment proposed for LHC was built and tested in a beam and in a magnetic field of up to 3 T. It contained six microstrip gas chambers, 25 cm long, and three double-sided silicon microstrip detectors, 12.5 cm long. We report some preliminary results on the performance of the chambers.