ALICE TPC upgrade for High-Rate operations.
Pre-published on:
September 07, 2017
Published on:
September 08, 2017
Abstract
A new type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been proposed for the upgrade of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN) so as to cater to the high luminosity environment expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in future. This device will rely on the intrin- sic ion back flow (IBF) suppression of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) based technology in particular the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM). GEM is to minimise the space charge effect in the main drift volume and thus will not require the standard gating grid and the resulting intrinsic dead time. It will thus be possible to read all minimum bias Pb–Pb events that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will deliver at the anticipated peak interaction rate of 50 kHz for the high lumi- nosity heavy-ion era in Run 3. New read-out electronics will send the continuous data stream to a new online farm at rates up to 1 TByte/s. The new read-out chambers will consist of stacks of 4 GEM foils combining different hole pitches. In addition to a low ion back flow (< 1%) other important requirements are good energy resolution (better than 12% (sigma) for 55Fe X-rays) and operational stability.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.242.0094
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