Geometry of the MDC in Geant

by Ilse Koenig, October 13, 1997



All four driftchambers have the same structure.
Here driftchamber 1 (in sector 1) is decribed.



Fig 1: Geometry tree of Driftchamber 1 in Geant



The keepin volume DR1M (filled with AIR$) contains an entrance frame, an exit frame D1F2 (both filled with ALUMINUM$) and an "active" volume D1A0 (STESALITH$) in between.

To account for the different materials the entrance frame contains the volumes D1I1 (AIR$) and D1B1 (STESALITH$) with the volume D1G1 (DRIFTGAS$) and the entrance window D1W1 (MYLAR_DET$) inside.

The exit frame contains the volumes D1I2 (AIR$) and D1G2 (DRIFTGAS$) with the cathode foil D1C7 at the beginning and the exit window D1W2 (MYLAR_DET$).

The "active" volume is distributed into 7 layers D1L0 ... D1L7 (all filled with DRIFTGAS$). Layer 1 to 6 contain the cathode foil D1Cx (ALU_KATH$) at the beginning and the sensewire foil D1Sx (ALTUWI_D1$) in the middle.





Fig 2: Cut through Driftchamber at y=0. The x-axis points upward and the z-axis to the left.
red: frames; blue: "active" volume D1A0; yellow: windows; lightblue: senswire planes;
green: cathode planes;