Detection of atmospheric muons with ALICE detectors

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

Volumn 617, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 57-61

  Alessandro, B ^a   Cortes Maldonado, I ^b   Cuautle, E ^c   Fernandez Tellez A ^b   Gomez Jimenez R ^e   Gonzalez Santos, H ^b   Herrera Corral, G ^d   Leon I ^e   Martinez M I ^b   Munoz Mata J L ^b   Podesta, P ^e   Ramirez Reyes A ^d   Rodriguez Cahuantzi M ^b   Sitta, M ^f   Subieta, M ^a   Tejeda Munoz G ^b   Vargas, A ^b   Vergara, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SINALOA   (Mexico)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

ACORDE; ALICE experiment; Atmospheric muons; Cosmic rays; Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; MAGNETS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

ACORDE; ATMOSPHERIC MUONS; INNER TRACKING SYSTEM; LARGE AMOUNTS; LARGE ION COLLIDER EXPERIMENTS; SILICON PIXEL DETECTOR;

CHARGED PARTICLES;

EID: 79952699878     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.08.062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. ALICE Physics Performance Report, vol. II, J. Part. Nucl. Phys. 30 (2004) 1517.
2. ALICE TPC Technical Design Report, CERN/LHCC 2000-001, 2000.
3. A. Fernandez, et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 572 (2007) 102.
4. See .