Speaker
Description
Studying of hadron production in forward direction at the LHC energy has
a great interest both for understanding of the fundamental QCD processes
and also in applied areas such as the description of
ultra-high energy cosmic particle interactions.
Since the energies of secondary hadrons in such studies almost reaches
the maximum energy available at the LHC of $\sim$6 TeV, the most effective
technique for particle identification is based on the transition radiation
detectors (TRD).
We propose a concept of TRD based on straw proportional tubes with specially
designed radiators and suitable for identification of hadrons with
Lorentz $\gamma$-factor up to 10$^4$ and above.
A prototypes of such kind of detector were built and tested at the CERN SPS
accelerator.
Some experimental results obtained are shortly observed here as well as
corresponding Monte Carlo simulation model showing perfect agreement
with the experiment.
On this basis the concept of full-scale TRD was developed and tuned for
hadron identification in TeV energy region.
Different particle identification techniques were proposed and tested.
Finally, we present the expected detector performance in composition
reconstruction of secondary hadrons produced in forward direction at the LHC.
