@article{3173993,
    title = "Determination of the event collision time with the ALICE detector at the
LHC",
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    journal = "The European Physical Journal Plus",
    year = "2017",
    volume = "132",
    number = "2",
    publisher = "Springer Berlin Heidelberg",
    issn = "2190-5444",
    doi = "10.1140/epjp/i2017-11279-1",
    abstract = "Particle identification is an important feature of the ALICE detector at
the LHC. In particular, for particle identification via the
time-of-flight technique, the precise determination of the event
collision time represents an important ingredient of the quality of the
measurement. In this paper, the different methods used for such a
measurement in ALICE by means of the T0 and the TOF detectors are
reviewed. Efficiencies, resolution and the improvement of the particle
identification separation power of the methods used are presented for
the different LHC colliding systems (pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb) during the
first period of data taking of LHC (Run 1)."
}