PANDA as midrapidity detector for a future HESR Collider at FAIR

Abstract

Exciting new scientific opportunities are presented for the PANDA detector at the High Energy Storage Ring in the redefined pp(A) collider mode, HESR-C, at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Europe. The high luminosity, L ∼ 10 31 cm −2 s −1 , and a wide range of intermediate and high energies, √ s NN up to 30 GeV for pp(A) collisions will allow to explore a wide range of exciting topics in QCD, including the study of the production of excited open charm and bottom states, nuclear bound states containing heavy (anti)quarks, the interplay of hard and soft physics in the dilepton production, probing short-range correlations in nuclei, and the exploration of the early, complete p-p-annihilation phase, where an initially pure Yang-Mills gluon plasma is formed.

Reconstructing charged-particle trajectories in the PANDA Straw Tube Tracker using the LOcal Track Finder (LOTF) algorithm

“…The upcoming antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt experiment (PANDA 1 , [1] [2]), that will be installed at the Facility of Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR 2 , [3]), will provide such a setup. It will study interactions between protons or nuclei and antiprotons (pp, pA) using an antiproton beam with a momentum between 1.5 and 15 GeV/c, provided by the High Energy Storage Ring (HESR, [4]) that impinges on a target of hydrogen or noble elements. The pp and pA collisions typically produce a wide variety of particles which makes them suited to explore e.g.…”

Performance studies for the trigger-less data acquisition of the PANDA experiment (phase-1)

“…The last experiment may require the additional beamline connecting SIS18/ESR with HESR. Consequently, the HESR can be upgraded to the collider machine [145]. The collider regime will allow to reach energies of √ s up to 30 GeV for pp collisions and in case of pA collisions -up to 19 GeV.…”