0000000000464936
AUTHOR
V Lyapin
Time response of TOF spectrometer to light and heavy particles
Comparing time of flight (TOF) values for α particles and fission fragments measured at different distances between the start- and stop detector we have obtained 60 ps as the upper limit for the TOF error resulting from the assumption of equal and linear time calibrations for both types of particles. While the 60 ps limit relates only to the specific spectrometer, the problem and the suggested verification technique are of general interest.
ALICE: Physics performance report, volume II
ALICE is a general-purpose heavy-ion experiment designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark-gluon plasma in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC. It currently involves more than 900 physicists and senior engineers, from both the nuclear and high-energy physics sectors, from over 90 institutions in about 30 countries. The ALICE detector is designed to cope with the highest particle multiplicities above those anticipated for Pb-Pb collisions (dN(ch)/dy up to 8000) and it will be operational at the start-up of the LHC. In addition to heavy systems, the ALICE Collaboration will study collisions of lower-mass ions, which are a means of varying the energy density, …