Online monitoring for the ALICE-TPC commissioning∗
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چکیده
ALICE [1] is A Large Ion Collider Experiment which will start operation in 2007 in the course of the CERN LHC program. The main tracking device of the experiment is a cylindrical Time Projection Chamber [2] (TPC). A ROOT based software module was developed to monitor online the data stream from the TPC during the commissioning phase at CERN in 2006. The main features of the program as well as results from tests during the commissioning phase will be presented.
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