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@PHDTHESIS{Ali:245844,
      author       = {Ali, Ahmed},
      title        = {{P}article identification with the {PANDA} {B}arrel {DIRC}
                      and the {G}lue{X} {DIRC}},
      school       = {Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt},
      type         = {Dissertation},
      address      = {Frankfurt},
      publisher    = {Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg},
      reportid     = {GSI-2022-00146},
      pages        = {124 S.},
      year         = {2021},
      note         = {Dissertation, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
                      Frankfurt, 2021},
      abstract     = {Next-generation DIRC detectors, like the PANDA Barrel DIRC,
                      with improved optical designs and better spatial and timing
                      resolution, require correspondingly advanced reconstruction
                      and PID methods. The investigation of the PID performance of
                      two DIRC counters and the evaluation of the reconstruction
                      and PID algorithms form the core of this thesis. Several
                      reconstruction and PID approaches were developed, optimized,
                      and tested using hadronic beam particles, experimental
                      physics events, and Geant simulations. The near-final design
                      of the PANDA Barrel DIRC was evaluated with a prototype in
                      the T9 beamline at CERN in 2018. The analysis finds
                      excellent agreement between the experimental data and the
                      Geant simulations for all reconstruction algorithms. The
                      best PID performance of up to $5.2 \pm 0.2$ s.d. $\pi$/K
                      separation at 3.5 GeV/c, was obtained with a time imaging
                      PID method. The PANDA Barrel DIRC simulation, as well as the
                      reconstruction and PID algorithms, were evaluated using
                      experimental data from the GlueX DIRC as part of the FAIR
                      Phase-0 program. The performance validation was carried out
                      using physics events of the GlueX experiment and
                      simulations. The initial analysis results of the
                      commissioning dataset show a $\pi$/K separation power of up
                      to 3 s.d. at a momentum of 3.0-3.5 GeV/c, obtained using a
                      geometric reconstruction algorithm.},
      cin          = {HPD},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Ds200)HPD-20121002OR242},
      pnm          = {612 - Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory (POF4-612)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-612},
      experiment   = {EXP:(DE-Ds200)GlueX-20200803},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
      urn          = {urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-634313},
      url          = {https://repository.gsi.de/record/245844},
}