The ALICE Transition Radiation Detector: Construction, operation, and performance

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The Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) was designed and built to enhance the capabilities of the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). While aimed at providing electron identification and triggering, the TRD also contributes significantly to the track reconstruction and calibration in the central barrel of ALICE. In this paper the design, construction, operation, and performance of this detector are discussed. A pion rejection factor of up to 410 is achieved at a momentum of 1 GeV/c in p-Pb collisions and the resolution at high transverse momentum improves by about 40% when including the TRD information in track reconstruction. The triggering capability is demonstrated both for jet, light nuclei, and electron selection. (c) 2017 CERN for the benefit of the Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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Transition radiation detectorMulti-wire proportional drift chamberFibre/foam sandwich radiatorXenon-based gas mixtureTrackingIonisation energy lossdE/dxTRElectron-pion identificationNeural networkTriggerCOLLIDING BEAM EXPERIMENTELECTRON IDENTIFICATIONDRIFT CHAMBERSTRD PROTOTYPESENERGY-LOSSGEV/CCOLLISIONSPIONS
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The ALICE Transition Radiation Detector: Construction, operation, and performance
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DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2017.09.028
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2018-02-11
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
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