Performance of the ALICE muon trigger RPCs during LHC Run I

Abstract

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) studies the transition of nuclear matter to a deconfined phase known as Quark Gluon Plasma, in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. ALICE is equipped with a muon spectrometer for the detection of quarkonia and heavy flavour particles. The trigger system of the spectrometer consists of 72 RPCs arranged in four detection planes, with a total area of 140 m^{2}. In the first three years of LHC operation, the muon trigger system was fully operational in data-taking in pp, Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions. The RPC performance and stability throughout the whole data-taking period is presented and discussed, for the parameters such as the efficiency, the dark counting rate, the dark current and the cluster size.

9 pages, proceeding for XII Workshop on Resistive plate Chambers and Related Detectors (RPC 2014 - Beijing February 2014)

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