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Prototype tests for the ALICE TRD

Nuclear Experiment 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

A Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) has been designed to improve the electron identification and trigger capability of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. We present results from tests of a prototype of the TRD concerning pion rejection for different methods of analysis over a momentum range from 0.7 to 2 GeV/c. We investigate the performance of different radiator types, composed of foils, fibres and foams.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0102017,
  title  = {Prototype tests for the ALICE TRD},
  author = {A. Andronic and H. Appelshaeuser and C. Blume and P. Braun-Munzinger and V. Catanescu and M. Ciobanu and H. Daues and A. Devismes and Ch. Finck and N. Herrmann and T. Lister and T. Mahmoud and T. Peitzmann and M. Petrovici and A. Reischl and K. Reygers and R. Santo and R. Schulze and S. Sedykh and R. S. Simon and J. Stachel and H. Stelzer and J. Wessels and O. Winkelmann and B. Windelband and C. Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0102017},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Presented at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Lyon, October 15-20, 2000 (accepted for publication in IEEE TNS), Latex (IEEEtran.cls), 7 pages, 11 eps figures