Author/Authors :
Beolè، نويسنده , , S. and Antinori، نويسنده , , S. and Coli، نويسنده , , S. and Crescio، نويسنده , , E. and Falchieri، نويسنده , , D. and Arteche Diaz، نويسنده , , R. and Di Liberto، نويسنده , , S. and Gabrielli، نويسنده , , Jason A. and Giraudo، نويسنده , , G. and Giubellino، نويسنده , , P. and Martoiu، نويسنده , , S. and Masetti، نويسنده , , G. D. Mazza، نويسنده , , G. and Mazzoni، نويسنده , , M.A. and Meddi، نويسنده , , F. and Rashevsky، نويسنده , , A. and Riccati، نويسنده , , L. and Rivetti، نويسنده , , Claudia A. and Simonetti، نويسنده , , L. and Toscano، نويسنده , , L. and Tosello، نويسنده , , F. and Urciuoli، نويسنده , , G.M. and Vacchi، نويسنده , , A. and Wheadon، نويسنده , , R.، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The ALICE experiment at the LHC will study collisions of heavy-ions at a centre-of-mass energy ∼ 5.5 TeV per nucleon. The main aim of the experiment is to study in detail the behaviour of nuclear matter at high densities and temperatures, in view of probing deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration. Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs) have been selected to equip the two intermediate layers of the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) [ALICE Collaboration, Technical Design Report, CERN/LHCC 99–12], since they couple a very good multi-track capability with d E / d x information and excellent spatial resolution as described in [E. Gatti, P. Rehak, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 225 (1984) 608; S. Beolé, et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 377 (1996) 393; S. Beolé, et al., Il Nuovo Cimento 109A (9) (1996)]. In this paper we describe the different components of the SDD system as well as the different procedure of the system assembly.
