https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612501004
Upgrade of the ALICE Inner Tracking System
IPHC, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, 23 rue du Loess, BP28, 67037 Strasbourg cedex 2
* e-mail: iouri.belikov@iphc.cnrs.fr
Published online: 28 October 2016
A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is built to study the properties of the strongly interacting matter created in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. With the upgrade of its Inner Tracking System (ITS), the ALICE experiment is going to increase the rate of data taking by almost two orders of magnitude. At the same time, the precision of secondary vertex reconstruction will become by at least a factor 3 better than it currently is. In this talk, we briefly show some selected physics results motivating the upgrade of the ITS, describe the design goals and the layout of the new detector, and highlight a few important measurements that will be realized after the completion of this upgrade.
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