Heavy flavour capabilities of the ALICE transition radiation detector

The ALICE Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) enhances the detection sensitivity of heavy-flavour production of the ALICE experiment at the LHC by providing electron identification above p T > 1 GeV / c and fast trigger capabilities above p T > 3 GeV / c . The combined particle identification from the Inner Tracking System (ITS), the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) and the Transition Radiation Detector enables measurements of D -mesons and B -mesons and, potentially, the Λ b , assuming the reconstruction of the Λ c + .