The MRPC detector for the ALICE Time Of Flight System: Final design and performances

Autor: Rosario Nania, B.V. Zagreev, Pietro Antonioli, Luisa Cifarelli, Despina Hatzifotiadou, S. Alessandrini, F. Massera, Hyun-Chul Kim, A. Zucchini, A. Di Bartolomeo, V. Golovin, Daijin Kim, M. Guerzoni, G. Pancaldi, Kirill Voloshin, Michele Guida, Anselmo Margotti, M. Zuffa, R. Michinelli, Federico Cindolo, G. Laurenti, M. C. S. Williams, R. Silvestri, Sergey Kiselev, M. Ryabinin, A.V. Smirnitski, Roberto Preghenella, E. Usenko, R. Pilastrini, M. Rizzi, F. Semeria, A. Pesci, Andrea Alici, Silvia Arcelli, S. Serra, A. De Caro, A. Zichichi, Y. u. Grishuk, S. Meneghini, Eugenio Scapparone, Dmitry Mal'kevich, G. Cara Romeo, S. De Pasquale, Ombretta Pinazza, I. D'Antone, Gilda Scioli, S. Sellitto, D. W. Kim, M.L. Luvisetto, W. W. Jung, Chiara Zampolli, M. Basile, E. Ugolini, M. Furini, Francesco Noferini, A. Zinine, Alexander Akindinov, M. Fusco Girard, D. Cavazza
Přispěvatelé: A. Akindinov, S. Alessandrini, A. Alici, P. Antonioli, S. Arcelli, M. Basile, G. Cara Romeo, D. Cavazza, L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, I. D'Antone, A. De Caro, S. De Pasquale, A. Di Bartolomeo, M. Furini, M. Fusco Girard, V. Golovin, Yu. Grishuk, M. Guerzoni, M. Guida, D. Hatzifotiadou, W.W. Jung, H.N. Kim, D.H. Kim, D.W. Kim, S. Kiselev, G. Laurenti, M.L. Luvisetto, D. Mal’kevich, A. Margotti, F. Massera, S. Meneghini, R. Michinelli, R. Nania, F. Noferini, G. Pancaldi, A. Pesci, R. Pilastrini, O. Pinazza, R. Preghenella, M. Rizzi, M. Ryabinin, E. Scapparone, G. Scioli, S. Sellitto, F. Semeria, S. Serra, R. Silvestri, A. Smirnitskiy, E. Ugolini, E. Usenko, K. Voloshin, M.C.S. William, B. Zagreev, C. Zampolli, A. Zichichi, A. Zinine, A. Zucchini, M. Zuffa
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2006
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Popis: The ALICE Time Of Flight (TOF) system will perform charged particle identification in the intermediate momentum range (from 0.5 to a few GeV/c) and in the central pseudorapidity region ( | η | 0.9 ). In particular the TOF has to cover an area of ∼ 160m2 and has to be highly segmented (∼ 160000 readout pads of 2.5 × 3.7 cm2 active area) in order to keep the occupancy in Pb-Pb collisions below the 15 % level. In order to satisfy these requirements, the double-stack MRPC detector has been chosen for the TOF system. The most relevant results on the performances of the final version of the MRPC and of the front-end/readout electronics will be presented. The device has a very good uniformity, a long streamer-free plateau, an efficiency higher than 99 % and an intrinsic time resolution below 50 ps.
Databáze: OpenAIRE