Status and performance of the ALICE Fast Interaction Trigger

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contents The ALICE apparatus at CERN has undergone significant upgrade during the LHC's Long Shutdown 2 to increase the experiment's rate capability and measurement precision for Run 3 and Run 4. One of the key detectors newly introduced to the experiment is the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT). Featuring minimal dead time, FIT provides a comprehensive trigger menu, including the minimum bias trigger with an efficiency exceeding 90 percent in proton-proton collisions. It also provides centrality, event plane, and background measurement capabilities. Precision of the collision time measurements performed by FIT reached remarkable values of 17 ps (sigma) in proton-proton collisions and 4.4 ps (sigma) in Pb-Pb collisions. This paper details FIT's design, performance, and the technical novelties made to meet the stringent environmental requirements of ALICE.
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Melikyan, Yury
Instrumentation and Detectors
High Energy Physics - Experiment
The ALICE apparatus at CERN has undergone significant upgrade during the LHC's Long Shutdown 2 to increase the experiment's rate capability and measurement precision for Run 3 and Run 4. One of the key detectors newly introduced to the experiment is the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT). Featuring minimal dead time, FIT provides a comprehensive trigger menu, including the minimum bias trigger with an efficiency exceeding 90 percent in proton-proton collisions. It also provides centrality, event plane, and background measurement capabilities. Precision of the collision time measurements performed by FIT reached remarkable values of 17 ps (sigma) in proton-proton collisions and 4.4 ps (sigma) in Pb-Pb collisions. This paper details FIT's design, performance, and the technical novelties made to meet the stringent environmental requirements of ALICE.
title Status and performance of the ALICE Fast Interaction Trigger
topic Instrumentation and Detectors
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10617