Mass test of the ALICE TRD front end electronics at IKF
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The Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) [1] is one of the main detector components of the ALICE experiment. It consists of 18 supermodules mounted cylindrical around the beam axis of the LHC. Every supermodule is assembled out of 30 Readout Chambers (ROC) of different types. These ROCs are equipped with front end electronics (FEE) and tested at the Institut für Kernphysik Frankfurt (IKF) [2]. In this report, we briefly describe this testing procedure.
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