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| Title: | Performance of the ALICE VZERO system |
| Authors: | Sahoo, Raghunath |
| Keywords: | Astroparticle physics;Heavy-ion detectors;Interaction points;Large detector-systems performance;Nucleus-nucleus collision;Particle multiplicity;Plane directions;Scintillator arrays;Protons;Relativity;Detectors |
| Issue Date: | 2013 |
| Citation: | Abbas, E., Abelev, B., Adam, J., Adamová, D., Adare, A. M., Aggarwal, M. M., . . . Zyzak, M. (2013). Performance of the ALICE VZERO system. Journal of Instrumentation, 8(10) doi:10.1088/1748-0221/8/10/P10016 |
| Abstract: | ALICE is an LHC experiment devoted to the study of strongly interacting matter in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. The ALICE VZERO system, made of two scintillator arrays at asymmetric positions, one on each side of the interaction point, plays a central role in ALICE. In addition to its core function as a trigger source, the VZERO system is used to monitor LHC beam conditions, to reject beam-induced backgrounds and to measure basic physics quantities such as luminosity, particle multiplicity, centrality and event plane direction in nucleus-nucleus collisions. After describing the VZERO system, this publication presents its performance over more than four years of operation at the LHC.© CERN 2013 for the benefit of the Alice collaboration. |
| URI: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/10/P10016 https://dspace.iiti.ac.in/handle/123456789/8568 |
| ISSN: | 1748-0221 |
| Type of Material: | Journal Article |
| Appears in Collections: | Department of Physics |
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