1. The ALICE vertex detector: Focus on the micro-strip layers
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Z. Radivojevic, I. Tymchuk, Rinaldo Rui, Paolo Camerini, J. Aaltonen, D. Bonnet, Mathias Osterberg, A.N. Sokolov, O. Clausse, E. Fragiacomo, Giacomo Vito Margagliotti, I. Rachevskaia, Markku Oinonen, J.R. Lutz, N. Grion, C. Kuhn, L. Bosisio, V. Zeter, F. Littel, F. Agnese, Henri Seppänen, S. Piano, Paulus Gerardus Kuijer, C.J. Oskamp, S. Nikkinen, C. Wabnitz, V. Antonova, Gennady Zinovjev, I. Kassamakov, O. Borysov, M. Imhoff, M.H Sigward, S. Plumeri, R. Kluit, Gerardus Nooren, V.N. Borshchov, M. Protsenko, A.P. de Haas, A. Listratenko, Giacomo Contin, F. Faleschini, A. van den Brink, Marco Bregant, J. Kostyshin, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa] (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Département Recherches Subatomiques (DRS-IPHC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ALICE, A.A. V.V., M., Bregant, O., Borysov, L., Bosisio, Camerini, Paolo, Contin, Giacomo, F., Faleschini, E., Fragiacomo, N., Grion, Margagliotti, Giacomo, S., Piano, I., Rachevskaia, Rui, Rinaldo, A. P., DE HAAS, R., Kluit, P. G., Kuijer, G. J. L., Nooren, C. J., Oskamp, A. N., Sokolov, A., VAN DEN BRINK, F., Agnese, D., Bonnet, O., Clausse, M., Imhoff, C., Kuhn, F., Littel, J. R., Lutz, S., Plumeri, M. H., Sigward, C., Wabnitz, V., Zeter, M., Oinonen, J., Aaltonen, I., Kassamakov, S., Nikkinen, Z., Radivojevic, I, H., Seppnen, M., Sterberg, V., Antonova, V., Borshchov, A., Listratenko, M., Protsenko, J., Kostyshin, I. TYMCHUK AND G., Zinovjev, and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Silicon ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,chemistry.chemical_element ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,01 natural sciences ,Nuclear physics ,ALICE ,0103 physical sciences ,ALICE ITS ,010306 general physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,Instrumentation ,Physics ,Large Hadron Collider ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,business.industry ,Detector ,Tracking system ,ALICE, microstrip ,chemistry ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Vertex detector ,ALICE (propellant) ,Focus (optics) ,business ,microstrip ,29.40.Wk ,29.40.Gx ,Double-sided AC silicon strip detector - Abstract
The ALICE experiment, which is being installed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, is designed to operate in a high-track density environment which is typical of relativistic heavy ions physics. This paper reports the main characteristics of the Inner Tracking System (ITS) of ALICE and describes the Silicon Strip Detector, which forms the two outermost layers of the ITS.
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- 2005
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