The PANDA detector at FAIR

Cooled antiproton beams of unprecedented intensities in the momentum range of 1.5–15 GeV/c will be used for the PANDA experiment at FAIR to perform high precision experiments in the charmed quark sector. Four major physical research topics will be addressed: Spectroscopy of resonances in the energy region of charmonium and above, In-medium effects of open and hidden charm, glueballs, predicted by QCD, and single and double hypernuclei. The proposed PANDA detector is a 4π internal target spectrometer at the HESR allowing the detection and identification of neutral and charged particles generated within the total energy range of the antiproton annihilation products.     

Hypernuclear physics

The contributed papers submitted to the session C Hypernuclear and kaon physics and not presented orally at the Conference are briefly reviewed here.Rapporteur talk at the symposium Mesons and Light Nuclei IV, Bechyn, Czechoslovakia September 5–10, 1988.     

Form factor measurements with PANDA at FAIR

The high intensity and high energy antiproton beams which will be produced at FAIR open the possibility to determine time-like electromagnetic form factors in a wide kinematical range, through the annihilation reaction： p ＋ p → e^＋ ＋ e^-. The status of the proposed experiment as well as the expected results are presented on the basis of realistic simulations. The impact of these measurements on the understanding of the nucleon structure, of the asymptotic properties of form factors and of the reaction mechanism are discussed using model independent statements based on symmetry properties of the strong and electromagnetic interactions in connection with space-like data.     

Hypernuclear and strangeness physics program at J-PARC

The inauguration ceremony of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) was held on 6 July 2009, celebrating the completion of its construction. Now, the beam commissioning of the 50-GeV main proton synchrotron is in progress to improve the beam intensity and quality. Many important experimental programs are planned with the improved beams. In this report, some of them are introduced.     

Hypernuclear physics for neutron stars

The role of hypernuclear physics for the physics of neutron stars is delineated. Hypernuclear potentials in dense matter control the hyperon composition of dense neutron star matter. The three-body interactions of nucleons and hyperons determine the stiffness of the neutron star equation of state and thereby the maximum neutron star mass. Two-body hyperon–nucleon and hyperon–hyperon interactions give rise to hyperon pairing which exponentially suppresses cooling of neutron stars via the direct hyperon URCA processes. Nonmesonic weak reactions with hyperons in dense neutron star matter govern the gravitational wave emissions due to the r-mode instability of rotating neutron stars.     

Perspectives for low energy antiproton physics at FAIR

The CRYRING accelerator, previously located at the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory of Stockholm University, has been chosen by the FLAIR collaboration as the central accelerator for the planned facility. It has been modified to allow for high-energy injection and extraction and is capable of providing fast and slow extracted beams of antiprotons and highly charged ions. It is currently being installed at the ESR of GSI Darmstadt where it can be used with highly charged ions. The future possibilities for its use with slow antiprotons will be discussed.     

The PANDA physics programme

The PANDA experiment at the future FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany, will use interactions of antiprotons with nucleons or nuclei to investigate fundamental questions of hadron and nuclear physics. Here, a brief overview of the physics programme is given, focusing on a few selected topics.     

Hadron physics with PANDA

The PANDA experiment at the new FAIR facility has a dedicated program of utilizing antiprotons for hadron physics. It belongs to the group of core experiments, which will be realized at the first stages of the facility. PANDA will be a universal detector to study the strong interaction by utilizing the annihilation process of antiprotons with protons and nuclear matter. The past few years have been used by the collaboration to do extensive detector R&D and to sharpen the physics case. This paper gives an introduction into the hadron physics with antiprotons as it is planned with PANDA.     

The compressed baryonic matter experiment at FAIR

The study of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions will be one of the major activities at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt. The goal of the research program is to explore the QCD phase diagram in the region of high baryon densities. The relevant observables and the lavout of the proposed Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment will be discussed.     

The compressed baryonic matter experiment at FAIR

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment will be one of the major scientific pillars of the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt. The goal of the CBM research program is to explore the QCD phase diagram in the region of high baryon densities using high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. This includes the study of the equation-of-state of nuclear matter at high densities, and the search for the deconfinement and chiral phase transitions. The CBM detector is designed to measure both bulk observables with large acceptance and rare diagnostic probes such as charmed particles and vector mesons decaying into lepton pairs.     

The compressed baryonic matter experiment at FAIR

The study of high-energy nucleus--nucleus collisions will be one of the major activities at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt. The goal of the research program is to explore the QCD phase diagram in the region of high baryon densities. The relevant observables and the layout of the proposed Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment will be discussed.     

Hypernuclear physics at \overline{\mbox{P}} anda

Samples obtained as a result of the valleriite synthesis process under different conditions (temperature and proportion Cu:Fe:Mg in the initial mixture) were investigated by ⁵⁷Fe M?ssbauer spectroscopy with attraction data of X-ray diffraction. Parameters of hyperfine interactions for valleriite were determined and crystal chemical identification of ⁵⁷Fe subspectra was carried out. It was found that valleriite was formed in samples synthesized at 150°C and 180°C and not formed in samples synthesized at 250°C.     

Hypernuclear Spectroscopy with Stable Heavy Ion Beams and Rare-isotope Beams:HypHI Project at GSI and FAIR

The international HypHI collaboration proposes to perform hypernuclear spectroscopy with stable heavy ion beams and rare isotope beams at GSI and FAIR in order to study neutron and proton rich hypernuclei and to measure directly hypernuclear magnetic moments for the first time.The project is divided into four phases.In the first Phase 0 experiment,the feasibility of precise hypernuclear spectroscopy with heavy ion beams will be demonstrated by observing π~- decay channels of ~e_ΛH,~4_ΛH and ~5_ΛHe with ~6Li projectiles at 2 AGeV impinging on a ~(12)C target.In the later Phases 1 through 3,studies of proton and neutron rich hypernuclei,direct measurements of hypernuclear magnetic moments and the spectroscopy of hypernuclei toward the nucleon drip-lines are planned.     

Hypernuclear physics legacy and heritage of Dick Dalitz

The major contributions of Richard H. Dalitz to hypernuclear physics, since his first paper in 1955 to his last one in 2005 covering a span of 50 years during which he founded and led the theoretical study of hypernuclei, are reviewed from a personal perspective. Topical remarks on the search for quasi-bound -nuclear states and on kaon condensation are made.     

B physics at the DØ experiment

The European Physical Journal C - First results reveal good capabilities of DØ experiment to study B physics. A new tracking system, high reconstruction rate and efficient trigger allow the...     

QCD physics at hadron storage rings: From COSY to FAIR

As a result of the rapid rise of the coupling constant α_s at low momentum transfers, perturbation theory is not an appropriate method to describe the strong interaction. In this kinematic regime other methods such as lattice QCD or effective field theories are more appropriate to investigate the appearance of a still unsettled phenomena: confinement and chiral symmetry breaking. Furthermore, the confinement of quarks and gluons to hadrons allows crucial tests of fundamental symmetries that are inherent to the QCD Lagrangian but are broken in hadronic systems. Thus, high precision measurements of the production and decay of specific hadronic states provides decisive benchmarks to investigate the properties of QCD in this regime. A new series of experiments are being prepared using nearly full acceptance detectors for neutral and charged particles around internal targets in high intensity, phase-space-cooled hadronic beams. Later this year, it is planned to transfer the WASA detector from the CELSIUS to the COSY ring in order to measure the production and various decay channels of the η and η′ mesons, thereby investigating the violation of P, C, T, and combinations thereof, as well as isospin violation. The experimental and theoretical techniques employed here will provide an important basis to extend these investigations to the static and dynamical properties of hadrons with charm quark content with the high energy storage ring for antiprotons at the new GSI/FAIR facility. Additional related perspectives will be opened at the new facility ranging from the properties of hadrons in dense nuclear matter to measurements of the nucleon’s transverse spin distribution in the valence quark region using polarized antiprotons     

SPARC collaboration: new strategy for storage ring physics at FAIR

SPARC collaboration at FAIR pursues the worldwide unique research program by utilizing storage ring and trapping facilities for highly-charged heavy ions. The main focus is laid on the exploration of the physics at strong, ultra-short electromagnetic fields including the fundamental interactions between electrons and heavy nuclei as well as on the experiments at the border between nuclear and atomic physics. Very recently SPARC worked out a realization scheme for experiments with highly-charged heavy-ions at relativistic energies in the High-Energy Storage Ring HESR and at very low-energies at the CRYRING coupled to the present ESR. Both facilities provide unprecedented physics opportunities already at the very early stage of FAIR operation. The installation of CRYRING, dedicated Low-energy Storage Ring (LSR) for FLAIR, may even enable a much earlier realisation of the physics program of FLAIR with slow anti-protons.     

Vector meson study for the CBM experiment at FAIR/GSI

We have studied the possibility to detect vector mesons via their decay into μ⁺μ⁻ pairs in heavy-ion collisions at FAIR with a muon detection system as part of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Probing new top physics at the LHCb experiment

We suggest that top quark physics can be studied at the LHCb experiment and that top quark production could be observed. Since LHCb covers a large pseudorapidity region in the forward direction, it has unique abilities to probe new physics in the top quark sector. Furthermore, we demonstrate that LHCb may be able to measure a t ?t production rate asymmetry and, thus, indirectly probe an anomalous forward-backward t ?t asymmetry in the forward region, a possibility suggested by the enhanced forward-backward asymmetry reported by the CDF experiment.