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The Electron-ion collider in China (EicC) is a proposed future electron-ion collider designed to achieve a high luminosity, with a center-of-mass energy ranging from 15 to 20 GeV. Excellent particle identification (PID) with extensive…

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The technical design of the PANDA experiment at the future FAIR facility next to GSI is progressing. At the proposed anti-proton storage ring the spectroscopy of double Lambda hypernuclei is one of the four main topics which will be…

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The DIRC is a Cherenkov imaging detector based on total internal reflection for the BaBar detector at PEP-II. The principles of the DIRC ring imaging Cherenkov technique are explained and its choice for the BaBar detector particle…

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Artificial Intelligence for Imaging Cherenkov Detectors at the EIC

Imaging Cherenkov detectors form the backbone of particle identification (PID) at the future Electron Ion Collider (EIC). Currently all the designs for the first EIC detector proposal use a dual Ring Imaging CHerenkov (dRICH) detector in…

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PANDA Phase One

The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany, provides unique possibilities for a new generation of hadron-, nuclear- and atomic physics experiments. The future antiProton ANnihilations at DArmstadt (PANDA or…

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Semenov , I. Shein , A. Uzunian , A. Vasiliev , A. Yakutin , S. Belostotski , G. Fedotov , A. Izotov , S. Manaenkov , O. Miklukho , B. Cederwall , M. Preston , P. E. Tegner , D. Wölbing , K. Gandhi , A. K. Rai , S. Godre , V. Crede , S. Dobbs , P. Eugenio , M. P. Bussa , S. Spataro , D. Calvo , P. De Remigis , A. Filippi , G. Mazza , R. Wheadon , F. Iazzi , A. Lavagno , A. Akram , H. Calen , W. Ikegami Andersson , T. Johansson , A. Kupsc , P. Marciniewski , M. Papenbrock , J. Regina , J. Rieger , K. Schönning , M. Wolke , A. Chlopik , G. Kesik , D. Melnychuk , J. Tarasiuk , M. Wojciechowski , S. Wronka , B. Zwieglinski , C. Amsler , P. Bühler , J. Marton , S. Zimmermann , C. S. Fischer , J. Haidenbauer , C. Hanhart , M. F. M. Lutz , Sinéad M. Ryan

First Results from the BELLE DIRC Prototype

The DIRC (Detection of Internally Reflected Cerenkov light) is a new type of ring imaging Cerenkov detector, which detects images from Cerenkov light produced in precisely machined quartz bars. The Cerenkov images are transported along…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Lu , D. Marlow , C. Mindas , E. Prebys

The PANDA Experiment at FAIR

The physics program of the future FAIR facility covers a wide range of topics that address central issues of strong interactions and QCD. The antiproton beam of unprecedented quality in the momentum range from 1 GeV/c to 15 GeV/c will allow…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-06-15 Diego Bettoni

The PANDA Detector at FAIR

The PANDA detector is under design to be installed at the HESR storage ring for antiproton of the future FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Fundamental questions of hadron and nuclear physics interactions of antiprotons with nucleons and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-10-16 S. Marcello

Status and Perspectives of PANDA

Physics with antiprotons in the charmonium mass region will play a major role at the future PANDA experiment at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt. At PANDA, an antiproton beam with momenta up to 15 GeV/c circulating in the high-energy storage…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-12-18 Kai-Thomas Brinkmann

Feasibility Studies for the Panda Experiment at Fair

PANDA, the detector to study AntiProton ANnihilations at DArmstadt, will be installed at the future international Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. The PANDA physics program is oriented towards the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Biegun

Design and performance of the Focusing DIRC detector

We present the final results from a novel Cherenkov imaging detector called the Focusing DIRC (FDIRC). This detector was designed as a full-scale prototype of the particle identification system for the SuperB experiment [1], and comprises…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 B. Dey , M. Borsato , N. Arnaud , D. W. G. S. Leith , K. Nishimura , D. A. Roberts , B. N. Ratcliff , G. Varner , J. Va'vra

Hadron Spectroscopy at PANDA

FAIR a new International Facility for Antiproton and Ion Reaserach, is under construction at Darmstadt, in Germany. This will provide scientists in the world with outstanding beams and experimental conditions for studying matter at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Elisa Fioravanti

Developing high-performance DIRC detector for the Future Electron Ion Collider Experiment

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be the next frontier project of nuclear physics in the United States. It is planned to be built in the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in close collaboration with Jefferson Lab. One of the key…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-15 Greg Kalicy

Reconstruction and Particle Identification for a DIRC System

We study the reconstruction and particle identification (PID) problem for Ring Imaging devices providing a good knowledge of the direction of the Cerenkov photons, as the DIRC system, on which we specialize. We advocate first the use of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Benayoun , L. Del Buono , Ph. Leruste

DIRC, the Particle Identification System for BABAR

The DIRC, a novel type of Cherenkov ring imaging device, is the primary hadronic particle identification system for the BABAR detector at the asymmetric B-factory, PEP-II at SLAC. BABAR began taking data with colliding beams mode in late…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Jochen Schwiening , representing the BABAR-DIRC Collaboration

Deep(er) Reconstruction of Imaging Cherenkov Detectors with Swin Transformers and Normalizing Flow Models

Imaging Cherenkov detectors are crucial for particle identification (PID) in nuclear and particle physics experiments. Fast reconstruction algorithms are essential for near real-time alignment, calibration, data quality control, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-11 Cristiano Fanelli , James Giroux , Justin Stevens

Physics Programme of PANDA at FAIR

The standard model and Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) have undergone rigorous tests at distances much shorter than the size of a nucleon. Up to now, the predicted phenomena are reproduced rather well. However, at distances comparable to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Inti Lehmann