Using the cathode surface of straw tube for measuring the track   coordinates along the wire
  The coordinate detectors based on straw tubes provide a high accuracy of the radial coordinate measurement using the drift time and a small amount of matter in the way of the measured particles. However, the measurement of the coordinate along the wire constitutes a problem. This paper proposes a method for measuring the hit coordinate along the wire with an accuracy better than 1 mm in a straw tube detector using the signals from the cathodes of the detector. 
V. A. Baranov, B. A. Chekhovskiy, N. P. Kravchuk, A. S. Korenchenko,   N. A. Kuchinskiy, N. V. Khomutov, S. A. Movchan, V. S...
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