The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is currently being built in Darmstadt, Germany. The SIS100 accelerator is at the heart of FAIR and will provide proton and heavy-ion beams for a ...variety of experiments. There are four main research pillars at FAIR specialized in the field of nuclear, hadron and elementary particle physics, atomic and antimatter physics, high density plasma physics, as well as applications in condensed matter physics, biology and the biomedical sciences. In these proceedings I briefly review the main research pillars of FAIR and the status of its realization.
The size and evolution of the medium created in a heavy-ion collision depends on collision geometry. Experimentally collisions can be characterized by the measured particle multiplicities around ...midrapidity or by the energy measured in the forward rapidity region, which is sensitive to the spectator fragments. In the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) the multiplicity of produced particles is measured with the silicon tracking system (STS). The projectile spectator detector (PSD) measures the energy of spectator fragments. We present the procedure of collision centrality determination in CBM and its performance using the PSD and the STS information.
A
bstract
Transverse momentum spectra of identified particles produced in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider are described with relativistic fluid dynamics. We perform a systematic ...comparison of experimental data for pions, kaons and protons up to a transverse momentum of 3 GeV
/c
with calculations using the F
luid
u
M code package to solve the evolution equations of fluid dynamics, the T
r
ENT
o
model to describe the initial state and the F
ast
R
eso
code to take resonance decays into account. Using data in five centrality classes at the center-of-mass collision energy per nucleon pair
s
NN
= 2
.
76 TeV, we determine systematically the most likely parameters of our theoretical model including the shear and bulk viscosity to entropy ratios, the initialization time, initial density and freeze-out temperature through a global search and quantify their posterior probability. This is facilitated by the very efficient numerical implementation of F
luid
u
M and F
ast
R
eso
. Based on the most likely model parameters we present predictions for the transverse momentum spectra of multi-strange hadrons as well as identified particle spectra from Pb-Pb collisions at
s
NN
= 5
.
02 TeV.
Abstract
The evolution of matter created in a heavy-ion collision depends on its initial geometry. Experimentally collision geometry is characterized with centrality. Procedure of centrality ...determination for the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR is presented. Relation between parameters of the collision geometry (such as impact parameter magnitude) and centrality classes is extracted using multiplicity of produced charged particles. The latter is connected to the collision geometry parameters using Monte-Carlo Glauber approach.
Abstract
The Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment (CBM) performance for proton anisotropic flow measurements is studied with Monte-Carlo simulations using collisions of gold ions at lab momentum of ...12
A
GeV/
c
employing DCM-QGSM-SMM heavy-ion event generator. Realistic procedures are used for centrality estimation with the number of registered tracks and particle identification with information from Time-Of-Flight detector. Variation of directed flow estimates depending on various combinations of PSD modules is used to evaluate possible systematic biases due to collision symmetry plane estimation.
The observed parameters studied in experiments on the collision of relativistic nuclei depend on the initial conditions, which cannot be determined experimentally. The standard method for determining ...the relationship between observables and theoretical initial state parameters is based on the Glauber model. We present the dependences of the parameters of the initial conditions of the heavy ion collisions on the input parameters of the Monte Carlo Glauber model, such as the inelastic cross section of the nucleon–nucleon interaction, which depends on the collision energy, and the nuclear density.
Abstract
Differential measurements of the directed flow of protons of Au+Au collisions at the beam energy of 1.23AGeV collected by the HADES experiment at SIS18 are presented. Measurements are ...performed with respect to the spectator symmetry plane estimated using the Forward Wall hodoscope. Corrections for the detector azimuthal non-uniformity are applied. Event plane and scalar product methods are used to evaluate the systematic uncertainty.
The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS has recently extended its program for the energy scan with Pb ions. In the past, the NA49 experiment, which preceded the NA61/SHINE, has also recorded data ...for Pb–Pb collisions at different energies. Together, the two experiments cover wide range of collision energies in the beam momentum range of 13–150
A
GeV/
provided by CERN SPS, which has a significant overlap with the ongoing second phase of the beam energy scan program (BES-II) at RHIC. The directed and elliptic flow relative to the projectile spectator plane are measured with the new NA61/SHINE data for Pb–Pb collisions at 13 and 30
A
GeV/
and revised existing NA49 data at 40
A
GeV. New results extend the existing world data available from the previous NA49 measurements and ongoing BES-II and fixed-target programs at STAR. The developed analysis techniques are also relevant for measurements at the future CBM experiment at FAIR and the MPD experiment at NICA.
Estimate of the collision symmetry planes is a crucial part of the anisotropic flow analysis in heavy-ion collisions. HADES experiment at GSI has different possibilities for symmetry plane ...estimation. In this letter different methods of the symmetry plane resolution calculation are compared and the differences are explained in terms of non-flow contribution.
A
bstract
The exclusive photoproduction reactions
γp
→
J/ψ
(1
S
)
p
and
γp
→
ψ
(2
S
)
p
have been measured at an
ep
centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated ...luminosity of 373 pb
−
1
. The measurement was made in the kinematic range 30
< W <
180 GeV,
Q
2
<
1 GeV
2
and |
t
|
<
1 GeV
2
, where
W
is the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy,
Q
2
is the photon virtuality and
t
is the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex. The decay channels used were
J/ψ
(1
S
)
→ μ
+
μ
−
,
ψ
(2
S
)
→ μ
+
μ
−
and
ψ
(2
S
)
→ J/ψ
(1
S
)
π
+
π
−
with subsequent decay
J/ψ
(1
S
)
→ μ
+
μ
−
. The ratio of the production cross sections,
R
=
σ
ψ
(2
S
)
/σ
J/ψ
(1
S
)
, has been measured as a function of
W
and |
t
| and compared to previous data in photoproduction and deep inelastic scattering and with predictions of QCD-inspired models of exclusive vector-meson production, which are in reasonable agreement with the data.
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