Measurement of the gas amplification of ALICE-TRD chambers at the IKF
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Before integration in the ALICE experiment, the readout chambers of the ALICE-Transition-RadiationDetector (TRD) [1] are tested at the Institut für Kernphysik Frankfurt (IKF), including measurements of their gas amplification factor. In this report, we describe the revisal of these test-procedures by introducing additional measurements to ensure a self-consistent determination of the absolute gas gain.
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