Heavy flavour capabilities of the ALICE transition radiation detector

The ALICE Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) enhances the detection sensitivity of heavy-flavour production of the ALICE experiment at the LHC by providing electron identification above and fast trigger capabilities above . The combined particle identification from the Inner Tracking System (ITS), the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) and the Transition Radiation Detector enables measurements of D-mesons and B-mesons and, potentially, the Λ_b, assuming the reconstruction of the .