The Time-Of-Flight (TOF) detector of the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC is based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) technology. During the 2009-2013 data taking the TOF system had very ...stable operations with a total time resolution of 80ps. Details of the different calibration procedures and performance with data from collisions at the LHC will be described.
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The time and energy resolutions were measured for four prototypes of the PHOS electromagnetic calorimeter for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Each prototype was made up ...of nine identical detection elements assembled as a 3 × 3 array. The detection element was based on a lead tungstate (PbWO
4
) scintillating crystal with a length of 180 mm and a cross section of 22 × 22 mm
2
, which was viewed from its end face by a photodetector. Avalanche photodiodes and silicon photomultipliers with different active areas (Hamamatsu, Japan) were used as photodetectors. The measurements were made with the electron component of secondary particle beams of the PS proton synchrotron at CERN in the momentum range of 1−10 GeV/
c
at a temperature of 17.5°C.
The intensive development of computer technologies, the growing importance of the problems of intellectualization and decision-making determine the need for software tools that make it possible to ...increase the efficiency of laboratory diagnostics in veterinary medicine. An analysis of the structure of the solid phase of biological fluids (facies) is proposed as a universal method for assessing the state of homeostasis of an organism. The paper highlights the problem of diagnosing animal diseases based on the determination of indicators of the structures of blood facies, substantiates the relevance of using neural networks to recognize the obtained images of blood facies, presents the main methods of an intelligent information system for diagnosing animal diseases.
Radiation hard ceramic RPC development Akindinov, A; Dreyer, J; Fan, X ...
Journal of physics. Conference series,
01/2017, Volume:
798, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
We report recent advances in R&D on the Beam Fragmentation and T0 Counter (BFTC) for the CBM experiment, based on RPCs with floating electrodes made of resistive ceramic material. An optimal value of ...the ceramics bulk resistivity has been determined to be about 5·109 ·cm. RPCs with such electrodes show even characteristics and stable operation under particle fluxes of up to 150 kHz/cm2, with the detection efficiency above 90%.
It is shown that an increase in the area of photodetectors allows the PHOS electromagnetic calorimeter of the ALICE experiment to operate at room temperature with better spectrometric ...characteristics. The linearity of the calorimeter response has been investigated in the 1–110 GeV energy range using both Hamamatsu S8664-1010 avalanche photodiodes with a large area (10 × 10 mm
2
) and arrays of MPPC Hamamatsu S12572-015C silicon photomultipliers with a sensitive area of 6 × 6 mm
2
. The calorimeter based on avalanche photodiodes is linear in the energy range under investigation compared to a calorimeter composed of silicon-photomultiplier arrays.
The use of S12572 MPPC silicon photomultipliers (Hamamatsu) for improving the timing characteristics of the PHOS electromagnetic calorimeter in the ALICE experiment at CERN is described. It is shown ...that by introducing an additional photodetector, that is, a silicon photomultiplier, it is possible, without worsening the energy resolution, to significantly improve the time resolution of the PHOS spectrometer from the current values of 3–4 ns to 150–200 ps.
A Cosmic Ray Test Facility (CRTF) is the first large-scale implementation of a scintillation triggering system based on a new technique, scintillation tile with MRS APD light readout (START). In ...START, the scintillation light is collected and transported by WLS optical fibers, while light detection is performed by pairs of avalanche photodiodes with the Metal–Resistor–Semiconductor structure (MRS APD) operated in the Geiger mode. START delivers 100% efficiency of cosmic muon detection, while its intrinsic noise level is less than
10
-
2
Hz
. CRTF, consisting of 160 START channels, has been continuously operated by the ALICE TOF collaboration for more than 25
000
h, and has demonstrated a high level of stability. Fewer than 10% of MRS APDs had to be replaced during this period.
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