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Equipping an experiment at FCC-ee with particle identification (PID) capabilities, in particular the ability to distinguish between hadron species, would bring great benefits to the physics programme. Good PID is essential for precise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-17 Guy Wilkinson

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of the seven experiments at the the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. ALICE is especially designed for heavy-ion collisions but it also operates a rich proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Eva Sicking

Bose-Einstein correlations between identified charged pions are measured for $p$+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02$ TeV using data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of $28$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-01-16 ATLAS Collaboration

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector designed to exploit the physics potential of nucleus-nucleus interactions at the LHC. Being a general purpose experiment, it will allow a comprehensive study of hadrons, electrons, muons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 C. Lourenco

Measurements of jet yields in heavy-ion collisions can be used to constrain jet energy loss models, and in turn provide information about the physical properties of deconfined QCD matter. ALICE reconstructs charged particle jets…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-04-26 James Mulligan

Precision timing has alway been a prominent topic in the instrumentation for high-energy physics experiments. In this document I discuss what the perspectives are for the use of silicon sensors for a time-of-flight detector in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-15 Roberto Preghenella

ALICE, which stands for A Large Ion Collider Experiment, is designed to study hadronic collisions at ultrarelativistic energies at the LHC. The primary objective of ALICE is to investigate the properties of quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-20 Livia Terlizzi

ALICE is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The experiment has also a broad program of QCD measurements in proton-proton (pp) collisions, which have two-fold interest: the study of particle production at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Dainese

The working principle and performance of the BELLE particle identification device (PID), based on a hybrid system consisting of an array of high precision scintillator Time of Flight and silica Aerogel Counters, is discussed. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Asish Satpathy

The production of different particle species is recently measured in $Pb-Pb$ collisions by the ALICE experiment at $\sqrt{s}=7 $TeV. This motivates the use of various bosons and baryons measured at lower center-of-mass energies in comparing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-27 A. Tawfik , E. Gamal , A. G. Shalaby

ALICE experiment at LHC collects data in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV and in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV. Highlights of the detector performance and an overview of experimental results measured with ALICE in pp and AA…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Yuri Kharlov

We overview recent jet measurements in pp and Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector. ALICE reconstructs jets at midrapidity using the anti-$k_{\mathrm{T}}$ algorithm, including both charged particle jets from the ALICE tracking…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-11-30 James Mulligan

We present the electron/pion identification performance measured with prototypes for ALICE TRD. Measured spectra of energy deposit of pions and electrons as well as their average values are presented and compared to calculations. Various…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-19 A. Andronic

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) aims at studying the behaviour of nuclear matter at high energy densities and the transition to the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), expected to occur in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Quarkonia…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Gagliardi

Proton-proton (pp) collisions have been used extensively as a reference for the study of interactions of larger colliding systems at the LHC. Recent measurements performed in high-multiplicity pp and proton-lead (p-Pb) collisions have shown…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-28 Rafael Derradi de Souza

One of the key signatures of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), is the modification of hadron transverse momentum differential cross-sections in heavy-ion collisions (HIC) as compared to proton-proton (pp) collisions. Suppression of hadron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Astrid Morreale

The goal of the ALICE experiment at LHC is to study strongly interacting matter at high energy densities as well as the signatures and properties of the quark-gluon plasma. This goal manifests itself in a rich physics program. Although…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-08-22 J. F. Grosse-Oetringhaus

In particle physics experiments, identifying the types of particles registered in a detector is essential for the accurate reconstruction of particle collisions. At Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), the GlueX…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-18 Eric Habjan , Richard Dube , James McIntyre , Mezmur Edo , Richard Jones

The ePIC detector is being designed as a general-purpose detector to deliver the full physics program of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) in BNL USA. Particle Identification (PID) plays a crucial role in the EIC physics program. Over a wide…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-07 Chandradoy Chatterjee

Particle Identification (PID) plays a key role in heavy flavor physics in high-energy physics experiments. However, its impact on Higgs physics is still not clear. In this note, we will explore some of the potential of PID to improve the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-07-15 Wei-Ming Yao