https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2013-13044-x
Regular Article
Performance of the ALICE Time-Of-Flight detector at the LHC
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Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Sezione di Bologna, 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, Università di Salerno, and INFN, Salerno, Italy
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World Laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland
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Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Roma, Italy
* e-mail: nania@bo.infn.it
Received:
18
March
2013
Accepted:
1
April
2013
Published online:
23
April
2013
The Time-Of-Flight (TOF) detector of the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC is based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) technology. During the 2009-2013 data taking the TOF system had very stable operations with a total time resolution of 80ps. Details of the different calibration procedures and performance with data from collisions at the LHC will be described.
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