The current progress of the ALICE ring Imaging Cherenkov detector


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Braem A., De Cataldo G., Davenport M., Di Mauro A., Franco A., Gallas A., ...Daha Fazla

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, cilt.580, sa.2, ss.1144-1147, 2007 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

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Recently, the last two modules (out of seven) of the ALICE High Momentum Particle Identification Detector (HMPID) were assembled and tested. The full detector, after a pre-commissioning phase, has been installed in the experimental area, inside the ALICE solenoid, at the end of September 2006. In this paper, we review the status of the ALICE/HMPID project and we present a summary of the series production of the CsI photo-cathodes. We describe the key features of the production procedure which ensures high-quality photo-cathodes as well as the results of the quality assessment performed by means of a specially developed 2D scanner system able to produce a detailed map of the CsI photo-current over the entire photo-cathode surface.