The ALICE Transition Radiation Detector: Construction, operation, and performance

The Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) was designed and built to enhance the capabilities of the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). While aimed at providing electron identification and triggering, the TRD also contributes significantly to the track reconstruction and calibration in...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2017-09, Vol.881 (C)
Hauptverfasser:	Acharya, S, Adam, J, Adamova, D, Adler, C, Adolfsson, J, Aggarwal, MM, Aglieri Rinella, G, Agnello, M, Agrawal, N, Ahammed, Z, Ahmad, N, Ahn, SU, Aiola, S, Akindinov, A, Al-Turany, M, Alam, SN, Antonczyk, D, Arend, A, Alba, JLB, Albuquerque, DSD, Aleksandrov, D, Alessandro, B, Alfaro Molina, R, Alici, A, Alkin, A, Alme, J, Alt, T, Altenkamper, L, Altsybeev, I, Alves Garcia Prado, C, Andrei, C, Andreou, D, Andrews, HA, Andronic, A, Anguelov, V, Anson, C, Antičić, T, Antinori, F, Antonioli, P, Anwar, R, Aphecetche, L, Appelshauser, H, Arcelli, S, Arnaldi, R, Arnold, OW, Arsene, IC, Arslandok, M, Audurier, B, Augustinus, A, Averbeck, R, Azmi, MD, Badala, A, Baek, YW, Bagnasco, S, Bailhache, R, Bala, R, Baldisseri, A, Ball, M, Baral, RC, Barbano, AM, Barbera, R, Barile, F, Barioglio, L, Barnafoldi, GG, Barnby, LS, Barret, V, Bartalini, P, Barth, K, Bartos, D, Bartsch, E, Basile, M, Bastid, N, Basu, S, Bathen, B, Batigne, G, Batyunya, B, Batzing, PC, Baumann, C, Bearden, IG, Beck, H, Bedda, C, Behera, NK, Belikov, I, Bellini, F, Bello Martinez, H, Bellwied, R, Beltran, LGE, Belyaev, V, Bencedi, G, Beole, S, Berceanu, I, Bercuci, A, Berdnikov, Y, Berenyi, D
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	dE/dx Electron-pion identification Fibre/foam sandwich radiator INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Ionisation energy loss Multi-wire proportional drift chamber Neural network PARTICLE ACCELERATORS Tracking Transition radiation detector Trigger Xenon-based gas mixture
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Zusammenfassung:	The Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) was designed and built to enhance the capabilities of the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). While aimed at providing electron identification and triggering, the TRD also contributes significantly to the track reconstruction and calibration in the central barrel of ALICE. In this article, the design, construction, operation, and performance of this detector are discussed. A pion rejection factor of up to 410 is achieved at a momentum of 1 GeV/c in p-Pb collisions and the resolution at high transverse momentum improves by about 40% when including the TRD information in track reconstruction. The triggering capability is demonstrated both for jet, light nuclei, and electron selection.
ISSN:	0168-9002