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ALICE will significantly increase its Pb--Pb data taking rate from the 1\,kHz of triggered readout in Run 2 to 50 kHz of continuous readout for LHC Run 3. Updated tracking detectors are installed for Run 3 and a new two-phase computing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-08 David Rohr

After several software and hardware upgrades during LS2, ALICE records 50 KHz of minimum bias Pb--Pb collisions in continuous readout mode. To cope with the high data rate of 3.5 TB/s from the detectors, multiple stages of compression are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-05 Gabriele Cimador

ALICE records Pb-Pb collisions in Run 3 at an unprecedented rate of 50 kHz, storing all data in continuous readout (triggerless) mode. The main purpose of the ALICE online computing farm is the calibration of the detectors and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-14 David Rohr

ALICE is the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the LHC at CERN and records lead-lead collisions at a rate of up to 50 kHz. The detector with the highest data rate of up to 3.4 TB/s is the TPC. ALICE performs the full online TPC processing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-24 David Rohr

ALICE is one of the four experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) specifically designed to study nuclear matter at extreme conditions of temperature and pressure. The LHC Run 3 started officially in July 2022 with proton-proton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-02 Ivan Ravasenga

ALICE is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its main tracking and particle-identification detector is a large volume Time Projection Chamber (TPC). The TPC has been designed to perform well in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-22 Mesut Arslandok , Ernst Hellbär , Marian Ivanov , Robert Helmut Münzer , Jens Wiechula

A new type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been proposed for the upgrade of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN) so as to cater to the high luminosity environment expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-17 Saikat Biswas

In the upcoming upgrades for Run 3 and 4, the LHC will significantly increase Pb--Pb and pp interaction rates. This goes along with upgrades of all experiments, ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb, related to both the detectors and the computing.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-29 David Rohr

ALICE has upgraded many of its detectors for LHC Run 3 to operate in continuous readout mode recording Pb--Pb collisions at 50 kHz interaction rate without trigger. This results in the need to process data in real time at rates 100 times…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-05 Giulio Eulisse , David Rohr

The ALICE experiment at the LHC is undergoing a major upgrade during the Long Shutdown 2 (2019-2021). In particular, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is being equipped with new GEM-based readout chambers and the readout electronics of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-21 Nazar Burmasov

The ALICE High Level Trigger has to process data online, in order to select interesting (sub)events, or to compress data efficiently by modeling techniques.Focusing on the main data source, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC), we present two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Lindenstruth , C. Loizides , D. Roehrich , B. Skaali , T. Steinbeck , R. Stock , H. Tilsner , K. Ullaland , A. Vestbo , T. Vik

The ALICE High-Level Trigger processes data online, to either select interesting (sub-) events, or to compress data efficiently by modeling techniques. Focusing on the main data source, the Time Projection Chamber, the architecure of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Lindenstruth , C. Loizides , D. Roehrich , B. Skaali , T. Steinbeck , R. Stock , H. Tilsner , K. Ullaland , A. Vestbo , T. Vik

The ALICE High Level Trigger has to process data online, in order to select interesting (sub)events, or to compress data efficiently by modeling techniques. Focusing on the main data source, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC), we present two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 V. Lindenstruth , C. Loizides , D. Roehrich , B. Skaali , T. Steinbeck , R. Stock , H. Tilsner , K. Ullaland , A. Vestbo , T. Vik

In this paper lossless and a quasi lossless algorithms for the online compression of the data generated by the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detector of the ALICE experiment at CERN are described. The first algorithm is based on a lossless…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ivanov , A. Nicolaucig , A. Krechtchouk

The ALICE Collaboration will undertake a major upgrade of the detector apparatus during the second LHC Long Shutdown LS2 (2019-2020) in view of the Runs 3 and 4 (2021-2029). The objective of the upgrade is two-fold: i) an improvement of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-08 Gasik fo the ALICE Collaboration

The Inner Tracking System (ITS) of the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor technology application in high-energy physics. The upgraded version of the tracking system, called…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-05 Svetlana Kushpil

The ALICE experiment at CERN is undergoing a major upgrade during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) of the LHC during 2019-2020. The key elements regarding the central barrel are the installation of a new Inner Tracking System (ITS) and the upgrade…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Felix Reidt

A major upgrade of the ALICE experiment is in progress and will result in high-rate data taking during LHC Run 3 (2022-2024). The LHC interaction rate at Point 2 where the ALICE experiment is located will be increased to $50\ \mathrm{kHz}$…

Track finding and fitting algorithm in the ALICE Time projection chamber (TPC) based on Kalman-filtering is presented. Implementation of particle identification (PID) using d$E$/d$x$ measurement is discussed. Filtering and PID algorithm is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ivanov , K. Safarik , Y. Belikov , J. Bracinik