https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1370-y
Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory
Results of the ALICE time-of-flight detector from the 2009 cosmic-ray data taking
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Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Bologna, Italy
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Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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Department of Physics, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
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Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and INFN, Salerno, Italy
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World Laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland
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INFN-CNAF, Bologna, Italy
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Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Roma, Italy
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CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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INFN and University of Padova, Padova, Italy
* e-mail: nania@bo.infn.it
Received:
8
March
2010
Revised:
25
April
2010
Published online:
29
June
2010
The Time-Of-Flight detector (TOF) of the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC is based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs). The TOF detector consists of 152928 readout channels covering a total area of 141 m2. In this paper the results of the calibration with cosmic-ray data collected during 2009 are presented.
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