M. Zuffa

TL;DR: The Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) as discussed by the authors is a general-purpose, heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC which focuses on QCD, the strong-interaction sector of the Standard Model.

TL;DR: In this article, the ALICE experiment uses a Time Of Flight array consisting of Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) in the form of long strips, and the design of the detector elements is as follows : double stack MRPCs with glass resistive plates and 5 gas gaps of 250 μ m per stack.

TL;DR: The ALICE Time-of-Flight system is based on the High Performance TDC chip (HPTDC) as mentioned in this paper, which is used in the ALICE time of flight system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Alice-TOF multigap resistive plate chamber (MRPC) performance was studied by using several gas mixtures and a search for possible ageing effects, by studying two MRPCs irradiated at the CERN Gamma Irradiation Facility.

TL;DR: The ALICE Time Of Flight (TOF) system as discussed by the authors performs charged particle identification in the intermediate momentum range (from 0.5 to a few GeV/c) and in the central pseudorapidity region ( | η | 0.9 ).