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most citedPerformance of the LHCb Vertex Locator

377 citations · 687 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

hep-ex2025

Production of protons, deuterons and tritons in argon-nucleus interactions at 3.2 AGeV

S. Afanasiev, G. Agakishiev, A. Aleksandrov +200

Results of the BM@N experiment at the Nuclotron/NICA complex on the production of protons, deuterons and tritons in interactions of an argon beam of 3.2 AGeV with fixed targets of…

physics.ins-det2024

The LHCb VELO Upgrade Module Construction

K. Akiba, M. Alexander, C. Bertella +84

The LHCb detector has undergone a major upgrade for LHC Run 3. This Upgrade I detector facilitates operation at higher luminosity and utilises full-detector information at the LHC…

hep-ex2023★ 1 cited

The BM@N spectrometer at the NICA accelerator complex

S. Afanasiev, G. Agakishiev, E. Aleksandrov +208

BM@N (Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron) is the first experiment operating and taking data at the Nuclotron/NICA ion-accelerating complex.The aim of the BM@N experiment is to study inte…

hep-ex2023★ 78 cited

The LHCb upgrade I

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1305

The LHCb upgrade represents a major change of the experiment. The detectors have been almost completely renewed to allow running at an instantaneous luminosity five times larger th…

hep-ex2023★ 10 cited

Production of and mesons in argon-nucleus interactions at 3.2 AGeV

S. Afanasiev, G. Agakishiev, E. Aleksandrov +167

First physics results of the BM@N experiment at the Nuclotron/NICA complex are presented on π+ and K+ meson production in interactions of an argon beam with fixed targets of C, Al,…

physics.ins-det2022

Measurement of thermal properties of the LHCb VELO detector using track-based software alignment

The LHCb VELO group

The thermal properties of the LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) are studied using the real-time detector alignment procedure. The variation of the position and orientation of the detector…

physics.ins-det2022★ 121 cited

Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA

MPD Collaboration, V. Abgaryan, R. Acevedo Kado +470

The Nuclotron-base Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), with commissioning of the facility expected in late 2022.…

physics.ins-det2020★ 4 cited

The Upgrade I of LHCb VELO -- towards an intelligent monitoring platform

P. Kopciewicz, T. Szumlak, M. Majewski +63

The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) detector is designed to detect decays of b- and c- hadrons for the study of CP violation and rare decays. At the end of the LHC Run 2, many…

physics.ins-det2018★ 27 cited

Mapping the material in the LHCb vertex locator using secondary hadronic interactions

M. Alexander, W. Barter, A. Bay +63

Precise knowledge of the location of the material in the LHCb vertex locator (VELO) is essential to reducing background in searches for long-lived exotic particles, and in identify…

nucl-ex2017

Charm production nearby threshold in pA-interactions at 70 GeV

A. Afonin, E. Ardashev, V. Balandin +24

The results of the SERP-E-184 experiment at the U-70 accelerator (IHEP, Protvino) are presented. Interactions of the 70 GeV proton beam with C, Si and Pb targets were studied to de…

nucl-ex2015

Soft photon registration at Nuclotron

Elena Kokoulina, E. Ardashev, V. Golovkin +30

First results of a soft photon yield in nucleus-nuclear interactions at 3.5 GeV per nucleon are presented. These photons have been registered at Nuclotron (LHEP, JINR) by an electr…

physics.ins-det2014★ 377 cited

Performance of the LHCb Vertex Locator

LHCb VELO Group, R. Aaij, A. Affolder +101

The Vertex Locator (VELO) is a silicon microstrip detector that surrounds the proton-proton interaction region in the LHCb experiment. The performance of the detector during the fi…

physics.ins-det2013★ 26 cited

Radiation damage in the LHCb Vertex Locator

A. Affolder, K. Akiba, M. Alexander +48

The LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) is a silicon strip detector designed to reconstruct charged particle trajectories and vertices produced at the LHCb interaction region. During the fi…

hep-ex2011★ 7 cited

Properties of Neutral Charmed Mesons in Proton--Nucleus Interactions at 70 GeV

2 Collaboration, A. N. Aleev, E. N. Ardashev +49

The results of treatment of data obtained in the SERP-E-184experiment "Investigation of mechanisms of the production of charmed particles in proton-nucleus interactions at 70 GeV a…

hep-ex2011

Neutral pion number fluctuations at high multiplicity in pp-interactions at 50 GeV

2 Collaboration, A. G. Afonin, A. N. Aleev +68

Neutral pion number N0 distributions for each total number of particles in event Ntot=Nch+N0 are obtained. The scaled variance of neutral pion fluctuations, omega=D/<N0>, is measur…

hep-ex2010

Registration of neutral charmed mesons production and their decays in pA-interactions at 70 GeV with SVD-2 setup

1A. Aleev, E. Ardashev, A. Afonin +51

The results of data handling for E-184 experiment obtained with 70 GeV proton beam irradiation of active target with carbon, silicon and lead plates are presented. Two-prongs neutr…

hep-ex2008★ 1 cited

New analysis on narrow baryon resonance decaying into in -interactions at with SVD-2 setup

SVD Collaboration

The inclusive reaction was studied at IHEP accelerator with proton beam using SVD-2 detector. Two different samples of , statistically indepe…

hep-ex2004★ 35 cited

Observation of narrow baryon resonance decaying into in pA-interactions at with SVD-2 setup

SVD Collaboration

SVD-2 experiment data have been analyzed to search for an exotic baryon state, the -baryon, in a decay mode at on IHEP accelerator. The reaction $pA \to pK…