Commissioning of the ALICE Time Projection Chamber
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The TPC is the central detector of the CERN-LHC experiment ALICE. It is the largest TPC ever built with a gas volume of ~90 m and 557568 readout channels. The LHC is scheduled to commence operation in 2007 with pp-collisions. Before installation underground inside the ALICE L3 magnet, the TPC including its auxiliary systems and services, i.e., gas system, temperature monitoring system, drift velocity monitoring system, FEC cooling, laser system, gating, chamber supply voltages, field cage high voltage, cables, DAQ and HLT have to be commissioned to ensure proper functioning of all its components.
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