Speaker
Dr
Christian Lippmann
(Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany)
Description
The Time Projection Chamber of the ALICE experiment has been operated
successfully since the CERN Large Hadron Collider started to provide collisions
in November 2009. More than 1 billion physics events have been read out from
the TPC with pp collisions (mainly at a center of mass energy of 7TeV), and
about 75 million with Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76TeV per nucleon pair (in
November 2010). We describe briefly the challenges in designing and operating
a Time Projection Chamber for heavy-ion collisions and report on the
performance of the detector, in particular on readout speed, momentum
resolution and particle identification capability.
Author
Dr
Christian Lippmann
(Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany)
