Tag: Inner Tracking System
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ALICE Inner Tracking System is ready for data taking
ALICE Inner Tracking System is ready for data taking The new Inner Tracking System (ITS) of the ALICE detector was installed inside the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) in spring 2021. The new ITS consists of 7 layers of monolithic pixel sensors, named ALPIDE, tiled up on linear staves of different lengths as described in (ref
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ALICE ITS3 clears major milestone
ALICE ITS3 clears major milestone With the R&D for the first truly cylindrical detectors based on ultra-thin, bent, wafer-scale monolithic silicon sensors, the ALICE collaboration aims at installing new vertex layers (“ITS3”) in LHC Long Shutdown 3. The envisioned setup comprises 6 Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) of more than 20 cm lengths arranged in
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The commissioning and installation of the new ALICE ITS
The commissioning and installation of the new ALICE ITS The Inner Tracking System (ITS) is the innermost detector of the ALICE central barrel. It consists of seven cylindrical layers all equipped with Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) named ALPIDE (ALice PIxel DEtector). The ITS allows track ing charged particles of very low transverse momentum at
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The ALICE ITS upgrade: Pixels for quarks
The ALICE ITS upgrade: Pixels for quarks Introduction ALICE, the heavy-ion dedicated experiment at the LHC, will soon have enhanced physics capabilities with a major upgrade of the detectors, data-taking and data-processing systems which will improve the precision of the extracted characteristics of the high density, high temperature phase of strongly interacting matter, the quark-gluon