{"paper":{"title":"Improving the dE/dx calibration of the STAR TPC for the high-pT hadron identification","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"physics.ins-det","authors_text":"Adam Kocolosky, Bedanga Mohanty, Gene van Buren, Hans Bichsel, Lijuan Ruan, Maria Cristina Suarez, Olga Barannikova, Patricia Fachini, Pawan Netrakanti, Xin Dong, Yichun Xu, Yuri Fisyak, Zebo Tang, Zhangbu Xu","submitted_at":"2008-07-27T15:40:51Z","abstract_excerpt":"We derive a method to improve particle identification (PID) at high transverse momentum ($p_T$) using the relativistic rise of the ionization energy loss ($rdE/dx$) when charged particles traverse the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) at STAR. Electrons triggered and identified by the Barrel Electro-Magnetic Calorimeter (BEMC), pure protons and pions from $\\Lambda\\to p+\\pi^{-}$ ($\\bar{\\Lambda}\\to \\bar{p}+\\pi^{+}$), and $K^{0}_{S}\\to\\pi^{+}+\\pi^{-}$ decays are used to obtain the $dE/dx$ value and its width at given $\\beta\\gamma=p/m$. We found that the deviation of the $dE/dx$ from the Bichsel funct"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"0807.4303","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}