CASTOR: Centauro and Strange Object Research in nucleus-nucleus collisions at LHC
Abstract
We describe the CASTOR detector designed to probe the very forward, baryon-rich rapidity region in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC. We present a phenomenological model describing the formation of a QGP fireball in a high baryochemical potential environment, and its subsequent decay into baryons and strangelets. The model explains Centauros and the long-penetrating component and makes predictions for the LHC. Simulations of Centauro-type events were done. To study the response of the apparatus to new effects different exotic species (DCC, Centauros, strangelets etc.) were passed through the deep calorimeter. The energy deposition pattern in the calorimeter appears to be a new clear signature of the QGP.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0209008,
title = {CASTOR: Centauro and Strange Object Research in nucleus-nucleus collisions at LHC},
author = {A. L. S. Angelis and X. Aslanoglou and J. Bartke and K. Chileev and E. Gladysz-Dziadus and M. Golubeva and F. Guber and T. Karavitcheva and Y. V. Kharlov and A. B. Kurepin and G. Mavromanolakis and A. D. Panagiotou and S. A. Sadovsky and V. V. Tiflov and Z. Wlodarczyk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0209008},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk given by E. Gladysz-Dziadus for the CASTOR group, Intern. Workshop on Nuclear Theory, 10-15 June, 2002, Bulgaria, Rila Mountains, 15 pages, 14 figures