Technical design report for the upgrade of the ALICE inner tracking system (original) (raw)

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The technical design report outlines the plans for upgrading the ALICE inner tracking system, aimed at enhancing the study of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) and other heavy-ion collision phenomena at the CERN LHC. It details the current capabilities of the ALICE apparatus and identifies the need for improvements in precision measurements of rare probes, vertexing, and tracking efficiencies. The upgrade is positioned within the broader context of increasing LHC luminosity and is expected to provide a significant boost in data statistics, thereby enabling more comprehensive analyses of hadronic matter produced in high-energy nuclear collisions.