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The influence of detector effects on TPC performance

Author

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

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

149-155

Publication/Series

Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment

Volume

609

Issue

2-3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

Keywords

  • Ionization energy loss
  • Space point resolution
  • Simulation
  • ALICE
  • TPC
  • Straggling

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0167-5087