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The influence of detector effects on TPC performance

Christiansen, Peter LU ; Dobrin, Alexandru LU ; Gros, Philippe LU ; Gustafsson, Hans-Åke LU ; Ivanov, M. ; Kowalski, M. ; Oskarsson, Anders LU ; Österman, Lennart LU and Stenlund, Evert LU (2009) In Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment 609(2-3). p.149-155
Abstract
TPC stand alone simulations based on different energy loss models are compared to previously reported measurements with an ALICE TPC prototype. The performance obtained from simulations is shown to depend significantly on all the included detector effects stressing that energy loss model calculations alone are inadequate for describing the performance. When all effects are included, a good quantitative description of both the specific energy loss and the space point resolution can be obtained from all models. This shows that the TPC description in the official ALICE TPC simulation is in agreement with the measured test beam data. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Ionization energy loss, Space point resolution, Simulation, ALICE, TPC, Straggling
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Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
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609
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2-3
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149 - 155
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Elsevier
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0167-5087
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10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.052
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English
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  author       = {{Christiansen, Peter and Dobrin, Alexandru and Gros, Philippe and Gustafsson, Hans-Åke and Ivanov, M. and Kowalski, M. and Oskarsson, Anders and Österman, Lennart and Stenlund, Evert}},
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  keywords     = {{Ionization energy loss; Space point resolution; Simulation; ALICE; TPC; Straggling}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2-3}},
  pages        = {{149--155}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment}},
  title        = {{The influence of detector effects on TPC performance}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.052}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.052}},
  volume       = {{609}},
  year         = {{2009}},
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