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MECHANICS: ROHACELL FOAM CAGE


Below is a picture of a so-called 'C-cage, machined out of Rohacell.
These cages on the outside and inside surfaces with silicon strip detectors. Twelve of them get stacked up to form a half-cylinder. Two half-cylinders make up the barrel section of the MVD.