Electron/pion identification with ALICE TRD prototypes using a neural network algorithm

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 552, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 364-371

  Adler, C ^a   Andronic, A ^b   Angelov, V ^a   Appelshauser H ^b   Baumann, C ^d   Blume, C ^c   Braun Munzinger, P ^b   Bucher, D ^d   Busch, O ^b   Catanescu V ^e   Chernenko, S ^f   Ciobanu, M ^e   Daues, H ^b   Emschermann, D ^a   Fateev, O ^f   Foka, Y ^b   Garabatos, C ^b   Glasow, R ^d   Gottschlag, H ^d   Gunji, T ^g   Hamagaki, H ^g   Hehner, J ^b   Heine, N ^d   Herrmann, N ^a   Inuzuka, M ^g   Kislov, E ^f   Lehmann, T ^a   Lindenstruth, V ^a   Lippmann, C ^b   Ludolphs, W ^a   Mahmoud, T ^a   Marin, A ^b   Miskowiec, D ^b   Oyama, K ^a   Panebratsev, Yu ^f   Petracek, V ^a   Petrovici, M ^e   Radu, A ^e   Reygers, K ^d   Rusanov, I ^a   Sandoval, A ^b   Santo, R ^d   Schicker, R ^a   Simon, R S ^b   Smykov, L ^f   Soltveit, H K ^a   Stachel, J ^a   Stelzer, H ^b   Stockmeier, M R ^a   Tsiledakis, G ^b   Verhoeven, W ^d   Vulpescu, B ^a   Wessels, J P ^d   Wilk, A ^d   Windelband, B ^a   Yurevich, V ^f   Zanevsky, Yu ^f   Zaudtke, O ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^f JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drift chamber; Electron pion identification; Neural network; Transition radiation detector

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DRIFT CHAMBERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

ELECETRON/PION IDENTIFICATION; PION REJECTION; TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTORS (TRD);

ELECTRONS;

EID: 26944486209     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.07.006     Document Type: Article

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