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David Silvermyr

David Silvermyr

Senior lecturer

David Silvermyr

Performance of the ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter

Author

  • S. Acharya
  • S. Basu
  • P. Christiansen
  • O. Matonoha
  • A.F. Nassirpour
  • A. Ohlson
  • A. Oskarsson
  • T. Richert
  • O.V. Rueda
  • D. Silvermyr
  • J. Staa
  • N. Zurlo

Summary, in English

The performance of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the ALICE experiment during operation in 2010-2018 at the Large Hadron Collider is presented. After a short introduction into the design, readout, and trigger capabilities of the detector, the procedures for data taking, reconstruction, and validation are explained. The methods used for the calibration and various derived corrections are presented in detail. Subsequently, the capabilities of the calorimeter to reconstruct and measure photons, light mesons, electrons and jets are discussed. The performance of the calorimeter is illustrated mainly with data obtained with test beams at the Proton Synchrotron and Super Proton Synchrotron or in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV, and compared to simulations.

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of Instrumentation

Volume

18

Issue

8

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Calorimeters
  • Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors
  • Hadrons
  • Synchrotron radiation
  • Synchrotrons
  • Data reconstruction
  • Data validation
  • Electromagnetic calorimeter
  • High energy physics detector
  • Large Hadron Collider
  • Large-hadron colliders
  • Performance
  • Performance of high energy physic detector
  • Proton synchrotrons
  • Test beam

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1748-0221