Performance of the LHCb RICH detector at the LHC

• Published in: arXiv.org 2013-09
• Main Authors: Adinolfi, M, Rinella, G Aglieri, Albrecht, E, Bellunato, T, Benson, S, Blake, T, Blanks, C, Brisbane, S, Brook, N H, Calvi, M, Cameron, B, Cardinale, R, Carson, L, Contu, A, Coombes, M, D'Ambrosio, C, Easo, S, Egede, U, Eisenhardt, S, Fanchini, E, Fitzpatrick, C, Fontanelli, F, ty, R, Frei, C, Gandini, P, Gao, R, J Garra Tico, Gibson, V, Gotti, C, Gregson, S, Gys, T, Haines, S C, Hampson, T, Harnew, N, Hill, D, Hunt, P, John, M, Jones, C R, Johnson, D, Kanaya, N, Katvars, S, Kerzel, U, Kim, Y M, Koblitz, S, Kucharczyk, M, Lambert, D, Lambert, R W, Main, A, Maino, M, Malde, S, Mangiafave, N, Matteuzzi, C, Mini', G, Mollen, A, Morant, J, Mountain, R, Morris, J V, Muheim, F, Muresan, R, Nardulli, J, Owen, P, Papanestis, A, Patel, M, Patrick, G N, Perego, D L, Pessina, G, Petrolini, A, Piedigrossi, D, Plackett, R, Playfer, S, Powell, A, Rademacker, J H, Ricciardi, S, Rogers, G J, Sail, P, Sannino, M, Savidge, T, Sepp, I, Sigurdsson, S, Soler, F J P, Solomin, A, Soomro, F, Sparkes, A, Spradlin, P, Storaci, B, Thomas, C, Topp-Joergensen, S, Torr, N, Ullaland, O, Vervink, K, Voong, D, Websdale, D, Wilkinson, G, Wotton, S A, Wyllie, K, Xing, F, Young, R
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Charged particles; Large Hadron Collider
• ISSN: 2331-8422
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.6759

The LHCb experiment has been taking data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN since the end of 2009. One of its key detector components is the Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) system. This provides charged particle identification over a wide momentum range, from 2-100 GeV/c. The operation and control software, and online monitoring of the RICH system are described. The particle identification performance is presented, as measured using data from the LHC. Excellent separation of hadronic particle types (pion, kaon and proton) is achieved.