Conveners
Future facilities, upgrades and instrumentation: I
- Harald Appelshaeuser (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))
Future facilities, upgrades and instrumentation: II
- Grazyna Odyniec
Since its startup in 2009, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has spent about 3 months of its operating time providing nucleus-nucleus (Pb-Pb) collisions. Peak Pb-Pb luminosity is now over 3 times design and integrated luminosity is expected to attain the initial design goal of 1 nb-1 in the 4th Pb-Pb run in late 2018. Following the demonstration of their feasibility in 2012, two...
The ALICE Collaboration will undertake a major upgrade of the detector apparatus during the second LHC long shutdown (LS2, 2019-20) in view of the Runs 3 and 4 (2021 to 2029). The objective of the upgrade is two-fold: i) an improvement of the tracking precision and efficiency, in particular in the low-momentum range; ii) an improvement of the readout capabilities of the experiment, in order to...
ALICE is the experiment specifically designed for the study of the
Quark-Gluon Plasma in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC. The ALICE detector
will be upgraded during the LHC Long Shutdown 2, planned for 2019-2020,
in order to cope with the maximum interaction rate of 50 kHz of Pb-Pb foreseen
for Runs 3 and 4.
The ambitious programme of high-precision measurements, expected for the
muon...
The second phase of the Beam Energy Scan at RHIC, BES-II, is scheduled for 2019-2020 and will explore with precision measurements the high baryon density region of the QCD phase diagram. Some of the key measurements at center-of-mass energies at 19.6 GeV to 7.7 GeV in collider mode and 7.7 GeV to 3.0 GeV are: the kurtosis of net-protons that could pinpoint the position of a critical point, the...
The sPHENIX experiment at RHIC will collect high statistics proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus data, starting in the early 2020's. The sPHENIX capabilities enable state-of-the-art studies of jet modification, upsilon suppression and open heavy flavor production to probe the microscopic nature of the strongly-coupled Quark Gluon Plasma, and will allow a broad range of cold QCD...
The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment is currently under construction and is one of the pillars of FAIR in Darmstadt. High-intensity heavy-ion beams delivered by the SIS100 accelerator (FAIR Phase 1) will be used to explore the QCD phase diagram in the region of neutron-star core baryon-densities. Interaction rates of up to 10 MHz on a fixed target will enable measurements at an...
We aim at studies of dense matter as a future project of J-PARC (J-PARC-HI), in fixed target heavy-ion collision experiments at 1-19 AGeV/c. We are going to search for the QCD critical end point and the first order phase boundary. The dense matter created at J-PARC-HI has a density of 5-10 times as high as the normal nuclear density similar to neutron stars and neutron star mergers. Therefore,...
The MPD (Multi Purpose Detector) is under construction to study hot and baryon rich QCD matter in heavy ion collisions at the NICA collider in the energy range √s_NN = 4 - 11 GeV. Physics program includes the study of collective phenomena, Λ polarization, dilepton, hyperon and hypernuclei production under extreme conditions of highest baryonic density. The MPD construction is progressing in...
BM@N (Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron) is the first experiment to be realized at the accelerator complex of NICA-Nuclotron in JINR. The aim of the BM@N experiment is to study interactions of relativistic heavy ion beams with fixed targets. The scientific program of the BM@N experiment comprises studies of nuclear matter in the intermediate energy range between experiments at SIS and NICA/FAIR...
By splitting the multi-TeV LHC proton and lead beams with a bent crystal or by using an internal gas target, the LHC complex allows one to perform the most energetic fixed-target experiments ever and to study with high precision pp, pd and pA collisions at $\sqrt{s}_{NN}$=115 GeV and Pbp and PbA collisions at $\sqrt{s}_{NN}$=72 GeV. A broad programme, covering the large-x frontier for particle...
