R&D in ALICE: The CsI-based RICH high momentum particle identification detector

Authors :: J. Seixas
A. DiMauro
F. Piuz
V. Tiflov
E. Schyns
K. Shileev
A. Braem
D. Di Bari
J.C. Santiard
F. Guber
S.N. Igolkin
Y. Andres
E. Carrone
Paolo Martinengo
Umberto Fratino
A. Kourepin
Andreas Morsch
F. Posa
E. Nappi
M. Davenport
G. Paic
D. Cozza
L. Liberti
T.D. Williams
J. Barbosa
V. Razin
J. van Beelen
A. Reshetin
G. de Cataldo
D. Dell'Olio
D. Fraissard
A. Franco
Source :: EPJ direct. 4:1-7
Publication Year :: 2002
Publisher :: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2002.
Abstract: We report on the R&D studies performed on a CsI-based RICH detector with a liquid perfluorohexane radiator running pure methane at atmospheric pressure. The development, initiated by the CERN RD26 project in 1993, has been pursued in the framework of the ALICE/HMPID collaboration. A prototype of the detector under construction for ALICE is taking data since two years in the STAR experiment at RHIC.