Results of the ALICE time-of-flight detector from the 2009 cosmic-ray data taking

A. Akindinov; A. Alici; P. Antonioli; S. Arcelli; M. Basile; F. Bellini; D. Caffarri; G. Cara Romeo; L. Cifarelli; F. Cindolo; A. De Caro; D. De Gruttola; S. De Pasquale; K. Doroud; M. Fusco Girard; B. Guerzoni; D. Hatzifotiadou; W. W. Jung; D. W. Kim; J. S. Kim; S. Kiselev; G. Laurenti; K. Lee; S. C. Lee; D. Malkevich; A. Margotti; R. Nania; A. Nedosekin; F. Noferini; P. Pagano; A. Pesci; O. Pinazza; R. Preghenella; M. Ryabinin; E. Scapparone; G. Scioli; J. Seo; A. Silenzi; K. Voloshin; M. C. S. Williams; C. Zampolli; A. Zichichi

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1370-y

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Eur. Phys. J. C (2010) 68: 601-607
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

A. Akindinov¹, A. Alici³^,8, P. Antonioli³, S. Arcelli²^,3, M. Basile²^,3, F. Bellini²^,3, D. Caffarri¹⁰^,2^,3, G. Cara Romeo³, L. Cifarelli²^,3, F. Cindolo³, A. De Caro⁵, D. De Gruttola⁵, S. De Pasquale⁵, K. Doroud⁶, M. Fusco Girard⁵, B. Guerzoni²^,3, D. Hatzifotiadou³, W. W. Jung⁴, D. W. Kim⁴, J. S. Kim⁴, S. Kiselev¹, G. Laurenti³, K. Lee⁴, S. C. Lee⁴, D. Malkevich¹, A. Margotti³, R. Nania³^*, A. Nedosekin¹, F. Noferini³^,7, P. Pagano⁵, A. Pesci³, O. Pinazza³, R. Preghenella³^,8, M. Ryabinin¹, E. Scapparone³, G. Scioli²^,3, J. Seo⁶, A. Silenzi²^,3, K. Voloshin¹, M. C. S. Williams³, C. Zampolli⁷^,9 and A. Zichichi²^,3^,8

¹ Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
² Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Bologna, Italy
³ Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
⁴ Department of Physics, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
⁵ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and INFN, Salerno, Italy
⁶ World Laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland
⁷ INFN-CNAF, Bologna, Italy
⁸ Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Roma, Italy
⁹ CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
¹⁰ 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

Abstract

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.

Present address: INFN and University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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