Conveners
Parallel Session T15: Future facilities and new instrumentation: I
- Federico Antinori (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
Parallel Session T15: Future facilities and new instrumentation: II
- Piotr Salabura (IFUJ)
The STAR Collaboration has successfully completed the upgrade of the forward detector system located between 2.5 $< \eta <$ 4.0. This upgrade comprises a Forward Calorimeter System, which contains an Electromagnetic Calorimeter and Hadronic Calorimeter; and a Forward Tracking System which consists of a Forward Silicon Tracker and Forward small-strip Thin Gap Chambers. The forward detector...
The LHCb experiment has recently undergone a series of major upgrades: the entire tracking system has been replaced with higher-granularity sensors, the readout electronics have been upgraded, and all hardware triggers have been removed in favor of a new state-of-the-art streaming readout system. In addition, the gaseous target SMOG system has been upgraded with a dedicated storage cell to...
After 9 years of successful data-taking in proton-proton and heavy ion collisions at a variety of energies, the ATLAS detector started in 2018 the preparations for an ambitious physics project, aiming the exploration of very rare processes and extreme phase spaces, an endeavor that will require a substantial increase in the amount of data to be taken. To accomplish this purpose, a...
The sPHENIX detector at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is currently under construction and on schedule for first data in early 2023. Built around the excellent BaBar superconducting solenoid, the central detector consists of a silicon pixel vertexer adapted from the ALICE ITS design, a silicon strip detector with single event timing resolution, a compact TPC, novel EM...
The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment is one of the major scientific pillars of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), which is expected to become operational in 2025-26. The goal of CBM is to explore the QCD phase diagram in the region of high baryon densities using nucleus-nucleus collisions in the energy range \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.9 - 4.9 GeV. CBM will be utilizing peak...
The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) is the first experiment at the
NICA Collider, which is in construction at the Joint Institute for
Nuclear Research in Dubna. During initial stage of operation the
complex
will study collisions of heavy ions in for sqrt(s_NN) of 4-11 GeV,
with Bi+Bi collisions at 9.2 GeV, in particular planned for first run.
It is expected that an excited QCD matter with...
Hadrons are elementary excitations of the QCD vacuum, and their properties reflect the state of the vacuum. The properties of the vacuum are theoretically suggested to be modified at finite density or temperature. Therefore, measuring hadrons under such an environment will lead to understanding of the property of QCD vacuum.
The J-PARC E16 experiment focuses on a measurement of the spectral...
The high-$\mu_{\rm B}$ region of the QCD phase diagram has become the object of several studies, focused on the investigation of the order of the phase transition and the search for the critical point. Accessing rare probes, which include electromagnetic observables and heavy quark production, is experimentally challenging as it requires large integrated luminosities, and a fixed-target...
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will undergo an extensive Phase II upgrade program to prepare for the more challenging conditions of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) in the high energy particle and nuclear physics program. A new time-of-flight layer is designed to measure minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) with a time resolution of ${\sim}30$ ps...
ALICE has undergone a major upgrade in preparation of LHC Run 3 (2022-2025). All detectors have been upgraded to allow readout at higher rates, matching the interaction rates provided by the LHC. The Inner Tracking System now completely consists of Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors, which also improves pointing resolution. The Time Projection Chamber has been equipped with GEM-based readout...
ALICE pursues several upgrades to further extend the physics reach. For Run 4, ALICE is pioneering the usage of bent, wafer-scale pixel sensors to replace the three innermost layers of the inner tracking system. This makes it possible to construct truly cylindrical layers, which consist practically only of the silicon sensors. The resulting improvement in pointing resolution will allow better...
