Determination of the event collision time with the ALICE detector at the LHC

ALICE Collaboration

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Abstract

Particle identification is an important feature of the ALICE detector at the LHC. In particular, for particle identification via the time-of-flight technique, the precise determination of the event collision time represents an important ingredient of the quality of the measurement. In this paper, the different methods used for such a measurement in ALICE by means of the T0 and the TOF detectors are reviewed. Efficiencies, resolution and the improvement of the particle identification separation power of the methods used are presented for the different LHC colliding systems (pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb) during the first period of data taking of LHC (RUN 1).

Original languageEnglish
Article number99
JournalEuropean Physical Journal Plus
Volume132
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2017

Funding

FundersFunder number
Not addedST/P004598/1
National Science Foundation1307461, 1613118, 1305280, 1407051
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/P005438/1, ST/M001601/1, GRIDPP, ST/L005670/1, 2014 STFC Nuclear Physics CG, ST/N00261X/1, 1657698, ALICE, ST/M00340X/1, ST/L005751/1, ST/J000108/1, ST/M00158X/1, ST/M001598/1

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