Performance Study for a Muon Forward Tracker in the ALICE Experiment

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the potential performance improvements of the proposed Muon Forward Tracker upgrade for the ALICE experiment at CERN, through detailed simulations focusing on tracking capabilities and physics potential.

Contribution

It provides a detailed simulation-based assessment of the Muon Forward Tracker's feasibility and expected performance in the ALICE experiment upgrade.

Findings

Preliminary results show promising tracking capabilities in low-multiplicity environments.

Simulation indicates potential for enhanced physics measurements with the MFT.

Feasibility of the MFT upgrade is supported by tracking performance data.

Abstract

ALICE is the experiment dedicated to the study of the quark gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC. Improvements of ALICE sub-detectors are envisaged for the upgrade plans of year 2017. The Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) is a proposal in view of this upgrade, motivated both by the possibility to increase the physics potential of the muon spectrometer and to allow new measurements of general interest for the whole ALICE physics. In order to evaluate the feasibility of this upgrade, a detailed simulation of the MFT setup is being performed within the AliRoot framework, with emphasis on the tracking capabilities as a function of the number, position and size of the pixel planes, and the corresponding physics performances. In this report, we present preliminary results on the MFT performances in a low-multiplicity environment.