TY - JOUR
T1 - The influence of detector effects on TPC performance
AU - Christiansen, Peter
AU - Dobrin, Alexandru
AU - Gros, Philippe
AU - Gustafsson, Hans-Åke
AU - Ivanov, M.
AU - Kowalski, M.
AU - Oskarsson, Anders
AU - Österman, Lennart
AU - Stenlund, Evert
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Ionization energy loss
KW - Space point resolution
KW - Simulation
KW - ALICE
KW - TPC
KW - Straggling
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/71749083008
U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.052
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.052
M3 - Article
SN - 0167-5087
VL - 609
SP - 149
EP - 155
JO - Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
IS - 2-3
ER -