2000
DOI: 10.1063/1.1361756
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Physics of particle detection

Abstract: Abstract. In this review the basic interaction mechanisms of charged and neutral particles are presented. The ionization energy loss of charged particles is fundamental to most particle detectors and is therefore described in more detail. The production of electromagnetic radiation in various spectral ranges leads to the detection of charged particles in scintillation, Cherenkov and transition radiation counters. Photons are measured via the photoelectric effect, Compton scattering or pair production, and neut… Show more

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“…When repurposing ALICE as the HPgTPC component of ND-GAr, better performance is expected for particles leaving the active volume, since the detector will be operating at higher pressure (10 atmospheres vs. the nominal ALICE 1 atmosphere operation), resulting in ten times more ionization per unit track length available for collection. Figure 62 (right) shows the charged particle identification for PEP-4/9 [114], a higher pressure gas TPC that operated at 8.5 atmospheres, which is very close to the reference argon gas mixture and pressure of the DUNE HPgTPC, and is thus a better indicator of the DUNE TPC's performance.…”
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confidence: 82%
“…When repurposing ALICE as the HPgTPC component of ND-GAr, better performance is expected for particles leaving the active volume, since the detector will be operating at higher pressure (10 atmospheres vs. the nominal ALICE 1 atmosphere operation), resulting in ten times more ionization per unit track length available for collection. Figure 62 (right) shows the charged particle identification for PEP-4/9 [114], a higher pressure gas TPC that operated at 8.5 atmospheres, which is very close to the reference argon gas mixture and pressure of the DUNE HPgTPC, and is thus a better indicator of the DUNE TPC's performance.…”
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confidence: 82%
“…FIG.4: dE/dx-based particle identification in the TPC of the PEP-4 detector at SLAC[4]. This TPC used a gas mixture of 80:20 Ar-CH 4 , operated at 8.5 atm[5].…”
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“…Together with the Doppler effect, the Cherenkov effect constitutes the branch of fundamental physics describing the radiation of uniformly moving sources [4]. Awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1958 [3], the Cherenkov effect finds applications in detectors in particle physics [5] and cosmology [6], and it plays a critical role in photonics [7,8], electromagnetics [9], biomedicine [10], and across various domains of solid-state physics [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20].…”
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