Performance of the ALICE VZERO system
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Abstract
ALICE is an LHC experiment devoted to the study of strongly interacting
matter in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions
at ultra-relativistic energies. The ALICE VZERO system, made of two
scintillator arrays at asymmetric positions, one on each side of the
interaction point, plays a central role in ALICE. In addition to its
core function as a trigger source, the VZERO system is used to monitor
LHC beam conditions, to reject beam-induced backgrounds and to measure
basic phyysics quantities such as luminosity, particle multiplicity,
centrality and event plane direction in nucleus-nucleus collisions.
After describing the VZERO system, this publication presents its
performance over more than four years of operation at the LHC.... Show more Show less