Performance of the RPC-based ALICE muon trigger system at the LHC

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Bossu F ^a,c   Gagliardi, M ^a   Marchisone, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^c ITHEMBA LABS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Muon spectrometers; Trigger detectors

Indexed keywords

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS; DETECTOR PARAMETERS; LARGE HADRON COLLIDER; LARGE ION COLLIDER EXPERIMENTS; MUON SPECTROMETER; RELIABILITY AND STABILITY; RESISTIVE PLATE CHAMBERS; TRANSVERSE MOMENTA;

CHARGED PARTICLES; DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; LEAD; PARTICLE DETECTORS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TRIGGER CIRCUITS;

PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 84875484401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/7/12/T12002     Document Type: Article

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