Some read-out systems for proportional multiwire chambers

Several methods are discussed, which reduce substantially the number of amplifiers required for the readout of a proportional multiwire chamber. 1. 1. The plane of wires is built as a lumped delay line. The difference in the arrival time of the pulse at the two ends of the line determines the position of the active wire. 2. 2. The wires are connected to a resistive attenuator network The ratio of the pulse heights arriving at the two ends localizes the active wire. 3. 3. The wires can be connected in different subgroups by transformer coupling.