Speaker
Lars Schmitt
(GSI Darmstadt)
Description
PANDA is a next generation hadron physics detector planned to be operated
at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at Darmstadt,
Germany. It will be using cooled antiproton beams with an energy between
1.5 GeV and 15 GeV interacting with various internal targets. The
experiment is focusing on hadron spectroscopy, in particular the search for
exotic states in the charmonium region, on the interaction of charm
hadrons with the nuclear medium and on double-hypernuclei. With physics
requiring precise partial wave analysis the experiment has almost 4π
acceptance, a solenoid magnet for high pT tracks and a dipole magnet for
the forward part of reaction products. A silicon vertex detector surrounds the
interaction point. In both spectrometer parts tracking, charged particle
identification, electromagnetic calorimetry and muon identification are
available. The readout of all sub-detectors is fully self-triggering and event
selection is performed online by programmable electronics and compute
nodes to allow full flexibility and parallel physics data taking. The status of
the detector development and the facility is presented.
Author
Lars Schmitt
(GSI Darmstadt)
