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Operation and calibration of the Silicon Drift Detectors of the ALICE
experiment during the 2008 cosmic ray data taking period
B Alessandro1, S Antinori2, R Bala1,3, G Batigne4, S Beolè1,3, E Biolcati1,3, N Bock Garcia5, E Bruna3, P Cerello1, S Coli1, Y Corrales Morales1, F Costa6, E Crescio3, P De Remigis1, S Di Liberto7, D Falchieri2, G Feofilov8, W Ferrarese3, E Gandolfi2,9, C Garcia1, L Gaudichet1, G Giraudo1, P Giubellino1, T J Humanic5, S Igolkin6, M Idzik1,3, S K Kiprich10, A Kisiel6, A Kolozhvari8, I Kotov5, J Kral11, S Kushpil12, V Kushpil12, R Lea1,3, M A Lisa5, M I Martinez1, A Marzari Chiesa1,3, M Masera1,3, M Masetti2,9, G Mazza1, M A Mazzoni7, F Meddi7,13, L M Montano Zetina1,3, M Monteno1, B S Nilsen5, D Nouais1, F Padilla Cabal1, V Petrácek11, M G Poghosyan1,3, F Prino1, L Ramello14, A Rashevsky15, L Riccati1, A Rivetti1, S Senyukov14, M Siciliano1,3, M Sitta14, M A Subieta Vasquez1,3, M Sumbera12, L Toscano1, F Tosello1, D Truesdale5, G M Urciuoli7, A Vacchi15, S Vallero16, A Werbrouck1,17, G Zampa15 and G Zinovjev18
Published 14 April 2010 •
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Journal of Instrumentation,
Volume 5,
April 2010
Citation B Alessandro et al 2010 JINST5 P04004DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/5/04/P04004
The calibration and performance of the Silicon Drift
Detector of the ALICE experiment during the 2008 cosmic ray run will
be presented. In particular the procedures to monitor the running
parameters (baselines, noise, drift speed) are detailed. Other
relevant parameters (SOP delay, time-zero, charge calibration) were
also determined.