The Time-of-Flight detector for the ALICE experiment

摘要

The Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) will be used to build a large Time-of-Flight detector for the ALICE experiment. It will cover an area of 150 m(2) consisting of 160,000 channels of 3.5 x 2.5 cm(2) read-out pads. We present the results of the last 2 years of R&D during which we investigated problems associated with scaling up from single cells of 3x3 cm(2) to strips with active area of 7 x 120 cm(2) read out with 96 pads. [References: 5]