Identification of particles with Lorentz factor up to $10^{4}$ with
  Transition Radiation Detectors based on micro-strip silicon detectors

Alozy, J.; Belyaev, N.; Campbell, M.; Cherry, M.; Dachs, F.; Doronin, S.; Filippov, K.; Fusco, P.; Gargano, F.; Heijne, E.; Konovalov, S.; Krasnopevtsev, D.; Llopart, X.; Loparco, F.; Mascagna, V.; Mazziotta, M. N.; Pernegger, H.; Ponomarenko, D.; Prest, M.; Pyatiizbyantseva, D.; Radomskii, R.; Rembser, C.; Romaniouk, A.; Savchenko, A. A.; Schaefer, D.; Schioppa, E. J.; Sergeeva, D. Yu; Shchukin, D.; Shulga, E.; Smirnov, S.; Smirnov, Y.; Soldani, M.; Spinelli, P.; Strikhanov, M.; Teterin, P.; Tikhomirov, V.; Tishchenko, A. A.; Vallazza, E.; van Beuzekom, M.; van der Heijden, B.; Vorobev, K.; Zhukov, K.

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Identification of particles with Lorentz factor up to $10^{4}$ with Transition Radiation Detectors based on micro-strip silicon detectors

Abstract

This work is dedicated to the study of a technique for hadron identification in the TeV momentum range, based on the simultaneous measurement of the energies and of the emission angles of the Transition Radiation (TR) X-rays with respect to the radiating particles. A detector setup has been built and tested with particles in a wide range of Lorentz factors (from about

10^3

to about

4 \times 10^4

crossing different types of radiators. The measured double-differential (in energy and angle) spectra of the TR photons are in a reasonably good agreement with TR simulation predictions.Comment: 31 pages, 12 figures, paper published on Nuclear Instruments & Methods