The ALICE transition radiation detector: Construction, operation, and performance

S Acharya; Jaroslav Adam; D. Adamova; C. Adler; Jonatan Adolfsson; M.M Aggarwal; Peter Christiansen; Anders Oskarsson; David Silvermyr; Evert Stenlund; Vytautas Vislavicius; ALICE Collaboration

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The ALICE transition radiation detector: Construction, operation, and performance

S Acharya, Jaroslav Adam, D. Adamova, C. Adler, Jonatan Adolfsson, M.M Aggarwal, Peter Christiansen, Anders Oskarsson, David Silvermyr, Evert Stenlund, Vytautas Vislavicius, ALICE Collaboration

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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 paper 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. © 2017 CERN for the benefit of the ALICE Collaboration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	88-127
Number of pages	40
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	881
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.09.028
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Subatomic Physics
Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

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dE/dx
Electron-pion identification
Fibre/foam sandwich radiator
Ionisation energy loss
Multi-wire proportional drift chamber
Neural network
TR
Tracking
Transition radiation detector
Trigger
Xenon-based gas mixture
Elementary particles
Energy dissipation
Hadrons
Lead
Neural networks
Surface discharges
Xenon
Ionisation energies
Pion identification
Transition radiation detectors
Electron irradiation

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Acharya, S., Adam, J., Adamova, D., Adler, C., Adolfsson, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Christiansen, P., Oskarsson, A., Silvermyr, D., Stenlund, E., Vislavicius, V., & ALICE Collaboration (2018). The ALICE transition radiation detector: Construction, operation, and performance. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 881, 88-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.09.028

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