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ALICEseen by a student
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FROM CERN webpage
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FROM http://aliceinfo.cern.ch
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FROM http://aliceinfo.cern.ch
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web pages created by
Pier-Luigi Barberis for ALICE Experiment
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TRD(Transition Radiation Detector)
• |η|<0.9, 45°<θ<135°
• 18 supermodules in Φ sector
• 6 Radial layers
• 5 z-longitudinal stack
total 540 chambers
750m² active area
28m³ of gas
• In total 1.18 million read-out
channels
FROM C. Adler -- Hadron Collider Physics, Les Diablerets, 4-9 July 2005
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TRD(Transition Radiation Detector)
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What is transition radiation?
“Transition radiation is emitted whenever a charged particle crosses an interface between two media with different dielectric functions.”
- L.Durand, Phys. Rev. D 11, 89(1975)
• Predicted : Ginzburg & Frank, 1946
• Observed : Goldsmith & Jelly, 1959(optical)
• It’s sizeable(X-rays) for relativistic particles.
FROM A. Andronic -- an overview for students, GSI, Feb. 6th, 2007
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TRD working principle
FROM P. Shukla -- ICPA-QGP'05, Kolkata, 8-12 February 2005
Cut through one side of
a TRD readout chamber
The total energy loss by TR for charged particle : depends on its Lorentz factor γ = E / mc2
Usefullness of TR : For discrimination the electron from hardons in the momentum range between 1GeV/c and 100GeV/c.
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FROM P. Shukla -- ICPA-QGP'05, Kolkata, 8-12 February 2005
TRD working principle
Cut through one side of
a TRD readout chamber
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TRD (Mechanical structure)
Cut through one side of
a TRD chamber
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Cut through one side of a TRD
TRD (Amplification region)
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TRD(Readput chamber)
Cross section through a TRD detector module
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Cut through one side of a TRD
TRD (Cathod pad plane)
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Cut through one side of a TRD
TRD (Backside of TRD)
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Cut through one side of a TRD
TRD (MCM motherboard)
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Summary