Thursday, September 17, 2015, 16:00
OSGA/EG06
Peter Braun-Munzinger, GSI Darmstadt
Abstract:
We will describe design considerations, construction, commissioning and
operation of the ALICE TPC. This detector has been conceived to provide,
at collision rates of up to 10 kHz, precision tracking and particle
identification for the many thousands of hadrons produced in each
collision between two Pb nuclei at LHC energy. Some key results will
also be described. Finally we will discuss the plan by ALICE to upgrade
the TPC for 50 kHz continuous read-out operation during LHC Run3 by
making use of the GEM technology.