The influence of detector effects on TPC performance

Peter Christiansen; Alexandru Dobrin; Philippe Gros; Hans-Åke Gustafsson; M. Ivanov; M. Kowalski; Anders Oskarsson; Lennart Österman; Evert Stenlund

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.052

The influence of detector effects on TPC performance

Peter Christiansen, Alexandru Dobrin, Philippe Gros, Hans-Åke Gustafsson, M. Ivanov, M. Kowalski, Anders Oskarsson, Lennart Österman, Evert Stenlund

Particle and nuclear physics

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TPC stand alone simulations based on different energy loss models are compared to previously reported measurements with an ALICE TPC prototype. The performance obtained from simulations is shown to depend significantly on all the included detector effects stressing that energy loss model calculations alone are inadequate for describing the performance. When all effects are included, a good quantitative description of both the specific energy loss and the space point resolution can be obtained from all models. This shows that the TPC description in the official ALICE TPC simulation is in agreement with the measured test beam data. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	149-155
Journal	Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
Volume	609
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.052
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

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Ionization energy loss
Space point resolution
Simulation
ALICE
TPC
Straggling

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Christiansen, P., Dobrin, A., Gros, P., Gustafsson, H.-Å., Ivanov, M., Kowalski, M., Oskarsson, A., Österman, L., & Stenlund, E. (2009). The influence of detector effects on TPC performance. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 609(2-3), 149-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.052

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