A new Highly-Granular time-of-flight Neutron Detector (HGND) is being developed and constructed to measure azimuthal neutron flow and neutron yields in nucleus-nucleus interactions in heavy-ion collisions with energies up to 4A GeV in the fixed target experiment BM@N at JINR. Details of the detector design and results of performance studies for neutron identification and reconstruction are shown. Comparison of simulations for different options of the HGND layout at the BM@N is presented. Several proposed methods of neutron reconstruction including machine learning and cluster methods are discussed.
@article{arxiv.2412.00455,
title = {The Highly-Granular Time-of-Flight Neutron Detector for the BM@N experiment},
author = {S. Morozov and V. Bocharnikov and D. Finogeev and M. Golubeva and F. Guber and A. Izvestnyy and N. Karpushkin and A. Makhnev and P. Parfenov and D. Serebryakov and A. Shabanov and V. Volkov and A. Zubankov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.00455},
year = {2024}
}