R&D status of the ALERT recoil particle detector

ALERT, A Low Energy Recoil Tracker is a detector that will track and identify recoil nuclei fragments at CLAS12, Jefferson Laboratory. It will reconstruct protons with a minimum momentum of about 70 MeV/c and identify all particles with a mass between the proton and the alpha. The detectors composing ALERT have also been selected to be included in the trigger to ensure a fast event selection. This presentation will focus on the state of our R&D for this project as well as the expected performance obtained from simulations.