A new tracking chamber, the Central Outer Tracker (COT), has
been built as part of the upgrade of the CDF detector at the Fermilab
Tevatron. The COT is a cylindrical open-cell drift chamber, segmented
into 96 layers. High voltage and readout electronics are mounted on the
chamber endplates, providing timing and charge deposition information.
The COT is designed to operate in the high luminosity environment of the
upgraded Tevatron. With the addition of the Main Injector and the
Recycler Ring, the Tevatron will be capable of providing luminosity as
high as 2 x 10^32 cm^-2 s^-1 at a bunch spacing of 132 ns. We discuss
the design of the detector, as well as the assembly. Construction of
the COT was completed in Spring 2000, and the first data will be taken
during a commissioning run in late Summer 2000.
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