14–17 Nov 2012
Academic Building, Utrecht University
Europe/Zurich timezone

The CBM heavy-quark program

15 Nov 2012, 12:30
30m
Kanunnikenzaal (Academic Building, Utrecht University)

Kanunnikenzaal

Academic Building, Utrecht University

Domplein 29, Utrecht

Speaker

Iouri Vassiliev (GSI)

Description

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR is designed to explore the QCD phase diagram in the region of high baryon densities and moderate temperatures. The key CBM observables include particles containing hidden charm – J/y and Y’, open charm – D0, D+ , D* and Lc, low-mass vector mesons decaying into leptons and multi-strange hyperons. Particularly demanding is the measurement of open charm particles with very low multiplicities, which is based on the real time selection of displaced vertices with an accuracy of about 50 μm. In the talk we discuss the problems of the detection of heavy-quark particles in fixed target experiments with relativistic heavy ion collisions.

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