Speaker
Prof.
Hans Rudolf Schmidt
(University of Tuebingen)
Description
The CBM experiment is one of the four scientific pillars of the Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. Its discovery potential – complementary to heavy-ion experiments at colliders – is based on high-luminosity ion beams. This enables access to extremely rare probes such as charmed particles, vector mesons, multi-strange hyperons or even double hypernuclei with high statistics. However, 3rd generations readout systems and detectors are required to handle the large interaction rates (up to 10 MHz for Au+Au) with sufficient precision and bandwidth. In this contribution we will outline the unique CBM physics program and its relation to other, existing (RHIC-BES, SPS-NA61) or future (NICA-MPD) heavy-ion experiments in a similar energy range (2-35 AGeV). We will further elaborate on the demands and challenges, which are imposed by the high collision rates and event multiplicities on the different CBM detectors systems
Author
Prof.
Hans Rudolf Schmidt
(University of Tuebingen)
