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HK: Physik der Hadronen und Kerne
HK 20: Heavy Ions II
HK 20.1: Group Report
Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 16:45–17:15, E
The Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at the future facility at GSI — •Volker Friese1, Anton Andronic1, Peter Braun-Munzinger1, Christian Finck1, Bengt Friman1, Norbert Herrmann2, Romain Holzmann1, Wolfgang Koenig1, Matthias Lutz1, Peter Senger1, Yanghwan Shin1, Reinhard Simon1, Herbert Ströbele3, and Joachim Stroth1,3 — 1GSI Darmstadt — 2Univ. Heidelberg — 3Univ. Frankfurt
A major field of research at the proposed accelerator facility at GSI will be the production and investigation of super-dense strongly-interacting matter. The exploration of the QCD phase diagram in the region of high baryon densities is complementary to the studies of matter at high temperatures performed at the CERN-SPS, RHIC and the future LHC. The planned experimental program will focus on diagnostic probes which have not been measured before in the beam energy range between 2 and 40 AGeV: light vector mesons decaying into electron-positron pairs, hidden and open charm and multi-strange hyperons. In addition, hadronic observables such as protons, pions and kaons will be detected with large acceptance. The experimental challenge is the efficient identification of rare probes (both hadrons and electrons) embedded in events with charged particle multiplicities of up to 1000 at reaction rates of up to 10 MHz. The proposed layout of the detector system and performance simulations will be presented.