the c ompressed b aryonic m atter experiment at the future accelerator facility in darmstadt

The Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at the future accelerator

facility in Darmstadt

Claudia Höhne

GSI Darmstadt, Germany

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nuclei

hadronic phase

SPS

RHIC

lattice QCD : Fodor / Katz, Nucl. Phys. A 715 (2003) 319

SIS300

dilute hadron gasdense baryonic medium

Motivation

Phase diagram of strongly interacting matter

• high T, low B

top SPS, RHIC, LHC

• low T, high B

SIS

• intermediate range ?

low energy runs SPS, AGS

SIS 300 @ GSI !

Highest baryon densities

Critical point?

Deconfinement?

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Motivation

SIS300 light, heavy ions

Phase diagram of strongly interacting matter

• high T, low B

top SPS, RHIC, LHC

• low T, high B

SIS

• intermediate range ?

low energy runs SPS, AGS

SIS 300 @ GSI !

Highest baryon densities

Critical point?

Deconfinement? and region of maximum of relative strangeness production

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Motivation

[Allton et al., Phys. Rev. D68, 014507 (2003)][Allton et al., Phys. Rev. D66, 074507 (2002)] *[Fodor, Katz, JHEP 0404, 050 (2004)]

q/T=1

critical point *

recent improvements in lattice-QCD allow for calculations at finite B :

• large baryon-number density fluctuations at the phase border for q/T=1

• critical point at TE=162 2 MeV, E=360 40 MeV *

intermediate range of phase diagram!

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Known so far ...

Low energy run at SPS (20, 30, 40 AGeV): Relative strangeness production shows ...

• sharp maximum in energy dependence: transition from hadronic to partonic phase?

• dynamical fluctuations which increase towards lower energies: critical point?

[J. Phys. G 30, 1381 (2004)]

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NN

NNN

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msF

KKEs

2

NA49

NA49

[J. Phys. G 30, 701 (2004)]

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Known so far ...

Low energy run at SPS (40 AGeV): e+e-

• enhancement of low-mass dilepton pairs, larger at 40 AGeV compared to 158 AGeV

• in medium modification of ?

need more and better measurements also at lower energies!

CERES [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 042301 (2003)]

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Known so far ...

A+A collisions at SIS : strangeness production in medium

[M. Lutz, Phys. Lett. B 426, 12 (1998)]KAOS Collaboration

experimental evidence for modification of kaon energy in medium!

• yields, rapidity spectra, azimuthal distributions ...

K+

RBBU KN Pot.

no KN Pot.

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Open questions ...

various QCD inspired models predict a change of the D-mass in a hadronic medium

• in analogy to kaon mass modification, but drop for both, D+ and D-

• substantial change (several 100 MeV) already at =0

• effect for charmonium is substantially smaller

[Mishra et al ., Phys. Rev. C 69, 015202 (2004) ]

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Open questions ...

Consequence of reduced D mass: DD threshold drops below charmonium states

[Mishra et al., Phys. Rev. C 69, 015202 (2004) ]

• decay channels into DD open for ’, c, J/

broadening of charmonium states suppression of J/ lepton pair channel (large fraction of J/ from higher states) (slight) enhancement of D mesons

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Open questions ...

... but even charm production near threshold is not known

[Gorenstein et al J. Phys. G 28 (2002) 2151]

central Au+Au

ccN

Predictions of open charm yield for central A+A collisions differ by orders of magnitude for different production scenarios, especially at low energies

[W. Cassing et al., Nucl. Phys. A 691, 753 (2001)]

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CBM experiment

physics topics observables

deconfinement at high B ?

softening of EOS ?

strangeness production: K,

charm production: J/, D

flow excitation function

Critical point ? event-by-event fluctuations

e+e-

open charm

in-medium properties of hadrons

onset of chiral symmetry restoration at high B

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CBM experiment

observables detector requirements

strangeness production: K,

charm production: J/, D

flow excitation function

event-by-event fluctuations

e+e-

open charm

all-in-one device suitable for every purpose

tracking in high track density environment (~ 1000)

hadron ID

lepton ID

myons, photons

secondary vertex reconstruction

(resolution 50 m)

large statistics: high beam intensity (109 ions/sec.)

high interaction rates (10 MHz)

fast, radiation hard detector

efficient trigger

rare signals!

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CBM detector layout

• tracking, vertex reconstruction: radiation hard silicon pixel/strip detectors (STS) in a magnetic dipole field

• electron ID: RICH1 & TRD (& ECAL) suppression 104

• hadron ID: TOF (& RICH2)

• photons, 0, : ECAL

• high speed DAQ and trigger

beam

target STS

TRDs

TOF

ECAL

RICHs

magnet

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SIS 100 Tm

SIS 300 Tm

U: 35 AGeV

p: 90 GeV

CBM @ FAIR

Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

„next generation“ accelerator facility:

• double-ring synchrotron

• simultanous, high quality, intense primary and secondary beams

• cooler/ storage rings (CR, NESR, HESR)

Ion and Laser induced plasmas: High energy density in matter

Compressed baryonic matter

Cooled antiproton beam: hadron spectroscopy

Structure of nuclei far from stability

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Tracking with STS

Experimental conditions:• 5cm (1st STS) up to 2 hits/mm2 per event • 100cm (7th STS) < 0.01 hits/mm2

7 planar layers of pixel/ strip detectors:• high precision vertex reconstruction: 2 pixel layers at 5cm, 10 cm downstream of target • fast strip detectors for outer stations (20, 40, 60, 80, 100 cm from target)

Reconstruction efficiency > 95 %Momentum resolution ≈ 0.6 %

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STS

Requirements:

• radiation hardness

• low material budget: d < 200 m

• fast read out

• good position resolution < 20 m

MIMOSA IVIReS/ LEPSI Strasbourg

R&D on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS):

• pitch 20 m

• thickness < 100 m

• single hit resolution ~ 3m

• problem: radiation hardness and readout speed ( event pile up in first 2 STS)

• fallback solution: hybrid detectors (problem: thickness, granularity!)

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electron ID with RICH 1

radiator gas: N2 th = 41 , p,th = 5.7 GeV/c (almost) hadron blind

photodetectors: photomultipliers (or gas detectors)

aim: suppression ~ 104 - 103

-spectrum at for central Au+Au collision at 25 AGeV (UrQMD)

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RICH 1

two mirrors: beryllium covered with glass, R = 450 cm

two focal planes (3.6 m2 each) separated vertically, shielded by magnet yoke

layout RICH: side view

z (beam)

y

rings in focal plane

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TRD

Task: e/ separation > 100, tracking

Setup: 9 layers in three stations (4m, 6m, 8m from target) area per layer 25, 50, 100 m2

efficiency < 1% reachable with 9 layers:

R&D

• for most of the system state-of-the art is appropriate (ALICE)

• inner part: R&D on fast gas detectors in progress (drift chamber/ GEM/ straw tubes)

Requirements:

• high counting rate (up to 150 kHz/cm2)

• fast readout (10 MHz)

• large area

• position resolution ~ 200 m

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Hadron ID with TOF

bulk of hadrons (, K, p) can be well identified with TOF = 80 – 100 ps

identification probability of K- for TOF = 80 ps

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RPC as TOF detector

Challenge for TOF : high counting rate (25 kHz/cm2)

large area (130 m2 @ 10 m)

time resolution ~ 80 ps

R&D Coimbra, Portugal

prototype: single gap counters with metal and plastic electrodes (resistivity 109 cm)

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RICH 2 (?)

Kaon ID by TOF quickly deteriorates above 4 GeV

Option for RICH2 ?e.g. thr = 30 p,thr = 4.2 GeV, pK,thr=15 GeV

problem: ring finding in high hit density environment

Kaon ID by RICH for p > 4 GeV would be desirable

identification probability of K- for TOF = 80 ps Momentum distribution of kaons from D0 decays

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DAQ & trigger architechtureRequirements• efficient detection of rare probes (D, J/, low-mass dilepton pairs): event rate 25 kHz

evaluation of complex signatures• fast: 1st level trigger at full design interaction rate of 10MHz

reconstruct ~ 109 tracks/s, secondary vertices ...• data volume in 1st level trigger ~ 50 Gbytes/s

event size ~ 40kbyte

clock

Detectors

Frontend electronics

Buffer pool

Event builder and selectorstorage

(1Gbyte/s)

self-triggered hit detectionpre-processing

feature extraction

each hit transported as address/ timestamp/ value

extraction of physical signaturestrigger decision

essential performance limitation not latency but throughput

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Feasibility Study: D0

Key variable to suppress background: secondary vertex position

D0 K-+ (c=124.4 m, BR 3.9 0.1%)

central Au+Au @ 25 AGeV (HSD): <D0> ~ 10-3

simulation including various cuts (vz !)

S/B ~ 1

detection rate ~ 13k/h at 1MHz interaction rate

Crucial detector parameters• material in STS• single hit resolution

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Feasibility Study: J/ e+e-

extremely rare signal (central Au+Au @ 25 AGeV ~ 10-5 /event)

6% branching ratio e+e-background from various sources: conversion, Dalitz decays of 0 and , , misidentified very efficient cut on single electron pt, pair opening angle

S/B > 1 should be feasible

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Feasibility Study: e+e-

branching ratio ~ 4.44 10-5 () – 3.1 10-4 ()

background from various sources: conversion, Dalitz decays of 0 and , misidentified no easy pt-cut as for J/ sophisticated cutting strategy necessary

depends crucially on elimination of conversion pairs by tracking

and charged pion discrimination by RICH and TRD ( 104 !)

idealized simulation:• no momentum resolution• no misidentification

• cut on pt, pair opening angle, prim. vertex track S/B 0.5-1

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Status of project

So far ...

• November 2001 Conceptual Design Report, Cost estimate 675 M €

• July 2002 German Wissenschaftsrat recommends realisation

• February 2003 German Federal Gouvernment decides to build the facility, will pay 75%

• January 2004 CBM Letter of Intent submitted

• CBM collaboration is formed: 250 scientiest from 39 institutions

• work in progress: detector design and optimization

R&D on detector components

feasibility studies of key observables

• next step: Technical Proposal January 2005

• could run in 2012!

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CBM collaboration

Croatia: RBI, Zagreb

Cyprus: Nikosia Univ.  Czech Republic:Czech Acad. Science, RezTechn. Univ. Prague France: IReS Strasbourg

Germany: Univ. Heidelberg, Phys. Inst.Univ. HD, Kirchhoff Inst. Univ. FrankfurtUniv. Mannheim Univ. MarburgUniv. MünsterFZ RossendorfGSI Darmstadt

Romania: NIPNE Bucharest

Russia:CKBM, St. PetersburgIHEP ProtvinoINR TroitzkITEP MoscowKRI, St. PetersburgKurchatov Inst., MoscowLHE, JINR DubnaLPP, JINR DubnaLIT, JINR DubnaPNPI GatchinaSINP, Moscow State Univ.

Spain: Santiago de Compostela Univ.  Ukraine: Univ. Kiev

Hungaria:KFKI BudapestEötvös Univ. Budapest

Italy: INFN Frascati

Korea:Korea Univ. SeoulPusan National Univ.

Norway:Univ. Bergen

Poland:Jagiel. Univ. Krakow Silesia Univ. KatowiceWarsaw Univ.Warsaw Tech. Univ.  Portugal: LIP Coimbra

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CBM time schedule

Subproject 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Si-Tracker

RICH

TRD

TOF-RPC

ECAL

Trigger/DAQ

Electronics

Magnet

Infrastructure

simulations, R&D, design Prototyping Construction Installation, test

Milestones: 1. Technical Proposal begin of 2005 2. Technical Design Report end of 2007

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Hit rates for 107 minimum bias Au+Au collisions at 25 AGeV:

Rates of > 10 kHz/cm2 in large part of detectors ! main thrust of our detector design studies

experimental conditions

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CBM R&D working packages

Feasibility, Simulations

D Kπ(π)GSI Darmstadt, Czech Acad. Sci., RezTechn. Univ. Prague

,ω, e+e-

Univ. KrakowJINR-LHE Dubna

J/ψ e+e-

INR Moscow

Hadron ID Heidelberg Univ,Warsaw Univ.Kiev Univ. NIPNE BucharestINR Moscow

GEANT4: GSI

TrackingKIP Univ. HeidelbergUniv. MannheimJINR-LHE Dubna

Design & constructionof detectors

Silicon PixelIReS StrasbourgFrankfurt Univ.,GSI Darmstadt,RBI Zagreb,Univ. Krakow

Silicon StripSINP Moscow State U.CKBM St. PetersburgKRI St. Petersburg

RPC-TOFLIP Coimbra, Univ. Santiago de Com.,Univ. Heidelberg,GSI Darmstadt,Warsaw Univ.NIPNE BucharestINR MoscowFZ RossendorfIHEP ProtvinoITEP Moscow

Fast TRDJINR-LHE, DubnaGSI Darmstadt,Univ. MünsterINFN Frascati

Straw tubesJINR-LPP, DubnaFZ RossendorfFZ JülichTech. Univ. Warsaw

ECAL ITEP Moscow GSI DarmstadtUniv. Krakow

RICH IHEP Protvino GSI Darmstadt

Trigger, DAQKIP Univ. HeidelbergUniv. MannheimGSI DarmstadtJINR-LIT, DubnaUniv. BergenKFKI BudapestSilesia Univ. KatowiceUniv. Warsaw

MagnetJINR-LHE, DubnaGSI Darmstadt

AnalysisGSI Darmstadt,Heidelberg Univ,

Data Acquis.,Analysis

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Acceptance of D0 and J/p

t [G

eV

/c]

D0 J/ψ

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misidentification

0 %

1 %0.1 %

0.01 %

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Granularity:inner region 2x2 cm2

intermediate region 5x5 cm2

outer region 10x10 cm2

Lead-scintillator calorimeter:• 0.5 – 1 mm thick tiles• 25 X0 total length• PM read out

Distance between electron and closest track in the innermost region

Tests of detector module prototype: July 2004 at CERN

Design of ECAL

Design goals of sampling calorimeter:• energy resolution of 5/E (%)• high-rate capability up to 15 kHz/cm2

• e//() discrimination of 25-200• total area ~200m2

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FAIR @ GSI