Commissioning of the ALICE muon spectrometer trigger at LHC

S. Ahn, R. Arnaldi, Y. Baek, A. Baldit, V. Barret, N. Bastid, G. Batigne, J. L. Béney, R. Berny, L. Bianchi, A. Blanc, G. Blanchard, F. Bossù, E. Chiavassa, P. Cortese, P. Crochet, G. Dellacasa, N. De Marco, P. Dupieux, A. FerrettiM. Gagliardi, M. Gallio, C. Insa, F. Jouve, X. Lopez, G. Luparello, L. Manceau, F. Manso, P. Mereu, A. Musso, C. Oppedisano, A. Picotti, C. Renard, P. Rosnet, D. Roy, L. Royer, P. Saturnini, E. Scomparin, D. Stocco, E. Vercellin, B. Vulpescu, X. Zhang

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Abstract

ALICE (a large ion collider experiment) is the LHC experiment dedicated to the study of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The ALICE muon spectrometer covers a large range in pseudo-rapidity and is designed to study quarkonia and heavy flavours decaying into (di-)muons. The high particle multiplicities environment in such collisions require a specific, fast and efficient trigger system, the muon trigger. It consists of four planes of RPC detectors, covering an area of 36 m 2 each, 21k front-end channels and a fast-decision electronics. The muon trigger is designed to reconstruct (muon) tracks and deliver a trigger signal each 25 ns (40 MHz) with a total latency of 800 ns. The hit position on the RPC is measured in two orthogonal directions with an accuracy of about 1 cm. The performance measured with the first pp collisions at √(s)=900GeV carried out in December 2009 is reported.

Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)S41-S44
RivistaNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume661
Numero di pubblicazioneSUPPL. 1
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 1 gen 2012

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