• First performance results of the ALICE TPC Readout Control Unit 2 

      Zhao, Chengxin; Alme, Johan; Alt, Torsten; Appelshäuser, Harald; Bratrud, Lars Karlot Stubberud; Castro, Andrew; Costa, Filippo; David, Ernö; Gunji, T; Kirsch, S; Kiss, Tivadar; Langøy, Rune; Lien, Jørgen; Lippmann, C; Oskarsson, Anders; Rehman, Attiq ur; Røed, Ketil; Røhrich, Dieter; Sekiguchi, Yoko; Stuart, Meghan; Ullaland, Kjetil; Velure, Arild; Yang, Shiming; Österman, Lennart (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This paper presents the first performance results of the ALICE TPC Readout Control Unit 2 (RCU2). With the upgraded hardware typology and the new readout scheme in FPGA design, the RCU2 is designed to achieve twice the ...
    • Particle identification studies with a full-size 4-GEM prototype for the ALICE TPC upgrade 

      Aggarwal, Madan M.; Ahammed, Zubayer; Aiola, Salvatore; Alme, Johan; Alt, Torsten; Amend, Werner; Andronic, Anton; Anguelov, Venelin; Appelshäuser, Harald; Arslandoc, Mesut; Averbeck, Ralf Peter; Ball, Markus; Barnaföldi, Gergely Gábor; Bartsch, Esther; Bellwied, René; Bencédi, Gyula; Berger, Martin Emanuel; Bialas, Norbert; Bianchi, Livio; Biswas, Saikat; Boldizsár, Laszlo; Bratrud, Lars Karlot Stubberud; Braun-Munzinger, P; Bregant, Marco; Britton, Charles L.; Brücken, Erik J.; Caines, Helen Louise; Castro, Andrew; Chattopadhyay, Subhasis; Christiansen, Peter H.L.; Clonts, Lloyd G.; Cormier, Tom M.; Dash, Sadhana; Das, Saubhagyalaxmi L.; Deisting, Alexander; Dittrich, Stefan; Ehlers, Raymond J.; Helstrup, Håvard; Langøy, Rune; Lien, Jørgen; Mahmood, Sohail Musa; Mathis, Andreas; Rehman, Attiq ur; Røhrich, Dieter; Ullaland, Kjetil; Velure, Arild; Røed, Ketil; Wikne, Jon Christopher; Zhao, Chengxin; ALICE, Collaboration (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Abstract A large Time Projection Chamber is the main device for tracking and charged-particle identification in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. After the second long shutdown in 2019/20, the LHC will deliver Pb ...