Physics – Medical Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2010
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ASTROPARTICLE, PARTICLE AND SPACE PHYSICS, DETECTORS AND MEDICAL PHYSICS APPLICATIONS. Proceedings of the 11th Conference. Held
Physics
Medical Physics
Lhc, Alice, Charged Hadrons Identification
Scientific paper
The results obtained by the RHIC experiments at BNL from high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions have shown the importance of identifying high momentum charged hadrons. At LHC, the relevant range for particle identification is expected to be wider than at RHIC, i.e. well above 10 GeV/c. In the ALICE experiment, dedicated to the study of heavy-ion collisions at LHC energies, particles with momentum below 10 GeV/c are identified by high-quality particle identification detectors based on the measurements of ionization energy losses in the Time-Projection-Chamber (TPC), Time-of- Flight (TOF) and Cherenkov radiation (HMPID). At higher momenta, statistical identification of hadrons is envisaged by measuring the ionization energy loss in the relativistic rise momentum region of the TPC. However, since the topology of the jets having a baryon leading particle may be different than those with a meson leading particle, it will also be necessary to identify track by track the highest momentum particles. For this reason, a proposal for an up-grade of the high momentum particle identification is being considered. Such an upgrade would consist of a ring imaging Cherenkov detector, called VHMPID (Very High Momentum Particle IDentification), exploiting the focusing properties of a segmented spherical mirror and using C4F10 as Cherenkov radiator. Characteristics and expected performance of the ALICE high momentum identification systems and of the VHMPID will be reviewed in this paper.
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