TY  - JOUR
A1  - Alme, Johan
A1  - Andres, Y.
A1  - Appelshäuser, Harald
A1  - Bablok, Sebastian
A1  - Bialas, Norbert
A1  - Bolgen, Rikard
A1  - Bonnes, Uwe
A1  - Bramm, Roland
A1  - Braun-Munzinger, Peter
A1  - Campagnolo, Roberto
A1  - Christiansen, Peter
A1  - Dobrin, Alexandru Florin
A1  - Engster, Claude
A1  - Fehlker, Dominik
A1  - Foka, Yiota
A1  - Frankenfeld, Ulrich
A1  - Gaardhøje, Jens Joergen
A1  - Garabatos, Chilo
A1  - Glässel, Peter
A1  - Gonzalez Gutierrez, Carmen
A1  - Gros, Philippe
A1  - Gustafsson, Hans-Åke
A1  - Helstrup, Håvard
A1  - Hoch, Michael
A1  - Ivanov, Marian
A1  - Janik, Rudolf
A1  - Junique, Antoine
A1  - Kalweit, Alexander Philipp
A1  - Keidel, Ralf
A1  - Kniege, Stefan
A1  - Kowalski, Marek
A1  - Larsen, Dag Toppe
A1  - Lesenechal, Yannick
A1  - Lenoir, Philippe
A1  - Lindegaard, Niels
A1  - Lippmann, Christian
A1  - Mager, Magnus
A1  - Mast, Manfred
A1  - Matyja, Adam
A1  - Munkejord, Magne
A1  - Musa, Luciano
A1  - Nielsen, Borge Svane
A1  - Nikolic, Vedran
A1  - Oeschler, Helmut
A1  - Olsen, E.K.
A1  - Oskarsson, Anders
A1  - Osterman, Lennart
A1  - Pikna, Miroslav
A1  - Rehman, Attiq ur
A1  - Renault, Gaël
A1  - Renfordt, Rainer Arno Ernst
A1  - Rossegger, Stefan
A1  - Röhrich, Dieter
A1  - Røed, Ketil
A1  - Richter, Mattias
A1  - Rueshmann, G.
A1  - Rybicki, Andrzej
A1  - Sann, Hans
A1  - Schmidt, Hans-Rudolf
A1  - Siska, Martin
A1  - Sitar, Branislav
A1  - Soegaard, Carsten
A1  - Soltveit, Hans Kristian
A1  - Soyk, Daniel
A1  - Stachel, Johanna
A1  - Stelzer, Herbert
A1  - Stenlund, Evert Anders
A1  - Stock, Reinhard
A1  - Strmeň, Peter
A1  - Szarka, Imrich
A1  - Ullaland, Kjetil
A1  - Vranić, Danilo
A1  - Veenhof, Rob
A1  - Westergaard, Joern
A1  - Wiechula, Jens
A1  - Windelband, Bernd
T1  - The ALICE TPC : a large 3-dimensional tracking device with fast readout for ultra-high multiplicity events
T2  - Nuclear instruments and methods in physics research : Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment
N2  - The design, construction, and commissioning of the ALICE Time-Projection Chamber (TPC) is described. It is the main device for pattern recognition, tracking, and identification of charged particles in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. The TPC is cylindrical in shape with a volume close to 90 m3 and is operated in a 0.5 T solenoidal magnetic field parallel to its axis.
In this paper we describe in detail the design considerations for this detector for operation in the extreme multiplicity environment of central Pb–Pb collisions at LHC energy. The implementation of the resulting requirements into hardware (field cage, read-out chambers, electronics), infrastructure (gas and cooling system, laser-calibration system), and software led to many technical innovations which are described along with a presentation of all the major components of the detector, as currently realized. We also report on the performance achieved after completion of the first round of stand-alone calibration runs and demonstrate results close to those specified in the TPC Technical Design Report.
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25198
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-251984
SN  - 0168-9002
VL  - 622
IS  - 1
SP  - 316
EP  - 367
PB  - North-Holland Publ. Co.
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -