Advances in charged particle identification techniques

The steady progress made over the past years in the design of innovative particle identification detectors has allowed to achieve relevant physics results in various experiments. The current investigation of new challenging approaches will seed future applications to the planned experiments at the SuperB factories and at the forthcoming FAIR facility, which demand an unrivalled particle identification performance. This paper will provide the current state of the art in the major charged particle identification techniques and will discuss the most significant advances and the most promising future directions.