Eur Phys J C (2004) 34: s317-s323
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2004-04-030-x

VII. Heavy Ion Physics (cont.)

The ALICE dimuon spectrometer

CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Received: 25 July 2003
Accepted: 1 December 2003
Published online: 13 July 2004

Abstract

The ALICE forward muon spectrometer has been designed to measure the complete spectrum of heavy quark vector mesons via their muonic decays in pp, proton–nucleus (pA) and nucleus–nucleus (A–A) collisions. Here we present the main design criteria, an overview of the spectrometer and the status and plans of the project.