It was agreed that the proposal should focus strongly on the experiment which can be performed with the reference detectors, and that alternative detector technologies should be treated as possible future improvements. Because the reference detectors were not fully defined at the meeting, their detailed specifications will continue to evolve. Preliminary descriptions of the reference detectors follow. A. Far Reference detector 1. The detector will consist of a rear 8 kton magnetized steel plate section and a front section with the same number of concrete plates.
Strips are perpendicular to wires.
Both anode wires and strips are read out to provide two coordinates per gap. Such studies should be performed only after the completion of studies on the reference detectors however. There would be 1200 planes, and the overall length would be 48.0 m. The near reference detector was taken to be as much like the far detector as possible. A depth of 5 m was suggested for the concrete section, but later discussions increased this to 8 m.