Data compression in ALICE by on-line track reconstruction and space point analysis

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Volumn 396, Issue PART 1, 2012, Pages

  Richter, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA COMPRESSION; DIGITAL STORAGE; HEAVY IONS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

CONSERVATIVE APPROACHES; DATA COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES; HIGH ENERGY NUCLEAR PHYSICS; HIGH RESOLUTION DETECTOR; HIGHER COMPRESSION RATIOS; LOSSLESS COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; TRACK RECONSTRUCTION;

DATA COMPRESSION RATIO;

EID: 84873293878     PISSN: 17426588     EISSN: 17426596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/396/1/012043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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