Energy loss of pions and electrons of 1 to 6 GeV/c in drift chambers operated with Xe,CO2(15\%)

We present measurements of the energy loss of pions and electrons in drift chambers operated with a Xe,CO2(15%) mixture. The measurements are carried out for particle momenta from 1 to 6 GeV/c using prototype drift chambers for the ALICE TRD. Microscopic calculations are performed using input parame...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Andronic, A., Appelshauser, H., Blume, C., Braun-Munzinger, P., Bucher, D., Busch, O., Catanescu, V., Ciobanu, M., Daues, H., Emschermann, D., Fateev, O., Foka, Y., Garabatos, C., Gunji, T., Herrmann, N., Inuzuka, M., Kislov, E., Lindenstruth, V., Ludolphs, W., Mahmoud, T., Petracek, V., Petrovici, M., Rusanov, I., Sandoval, A., Santo, R., Schicker, R., Simon, R.S., Smykov, L., Soltveit, H.K., Stachel, J., Stelzer, H., Tsiledakis, G., Vulpescu, B., Wessels, J.P., Windelband, B., Xu, C., Zaudtke, O., Zanevsky, Yu., Yurevich, V.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2003
Materias:
Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.036
http://cds.cern.ch/record/678656
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Sumario:We present measurements of the energy loss of pions and electrons in drift chambers operated with a Xe,CO2(15%) mixture. The measurements are carried out for particle momenta from 1 to 6 GeV/c using prototype drift chambers for the ALICE TRD. Microscopic calculations are performed using input parameters calculated with GEANT3. These calculations reproduce well the measured average and most probable values for pions, but a higher Fermi plateau is required in order to reproduce our electron data. The widths of the measured distributions are smaller for data compared to the calculations. The electron/pion identification performance using the energy loss is also presented.

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