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The PANDA Barrel DIRC

The PANDA experiment at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR), Darmstadt, Germany, will address fundamental questions of hadron physics using $\bar{p}p$ annihilations. Excellent Particle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-15 R. Dzhygadlo , A. Belias , A. Gerhardt , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , G. Schepers , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , Y. Wolf , L. Schmitt , M. Böhm , K. Gumbert , S. Krauss , A. Lehmann , D. Miehling , M. Düren , A. Hayrapetyan , I. Köseoglu , M. Schmidt , T. Wasem , C. Sfienti , A. Ali

The PANDA Barrel DIRC

The PANDA experiment at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) near GSI, Darmstadt, Germany will address fundamental questions of hadron physics. Excellent Particle Identification (PID) over…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-29 J. Schwiening

The PANDA Barrel DIRC: From design to assembly

The Barrel DIRC counter will serve as the primary particle identification detector in the PANDA experiment, enabling high-precision hadron physics studies through antiproton-proton annihilations across a momentum range of 1.5 GeV/c to 15…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-18 G. Schepers , A. Belias , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gerhardt , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , Y. Wolf , L. Schmitt , M. Böhm , K. Gumbert , S. Krauss , A. Lehmann , D. Miehling , M. Schmidt , C. Sfienti , A. Ali

The Innovative Design of the PANDA Barrel DIRC

The Barrel DIRC of the PANDA experiment at FAIR will cleanly separate pions from kaons for the physics program of PANDA. Innovative solutions for key components of the detector sitting in the strong magnetic field of the compact PANDA…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-09 G. Schepers , A. Ali , A. Belias , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gerhardt , M. Krebs , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , L. Schmitt , M. Böhm , A. Lehmann , M. Pfaffinger , S. Stelter , F. Uhlig , M. Düren , E. Etzelmüller , K. Föhl , A. Hayrapetyan , K. Kreutzfeld , J. Rieke , M. Schmidt , T. Wasem , P. Achenbach , M. Cardinali , M. Hoek , W. Lauth , S. Schlimme , C. Sfienti , M. Thiel

Technical Design Report for the PANDA Barrel DIRC Detector

This documents describes the technical design and the expected performance of the Barrel DIRC detector for the PANDA experiment. The Barrel DIRC will provide hadronic charged particle identification in the polar angle range of $22^\circ$ to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-03 PANDA Collaboration

The Barrel DIRC detector of PANDA

The PANDA experiment is one of the four large experiments being built at FAIR in Darmstadt. It will use a cooled antiproton beam on a fixed target within the momentum range of 1.5 to 15 GeV/c to address questions of strong QCD, where the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-25 C. Schwarz , A. Ali , A. Belias , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gerhardt , M. Krebs , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , G. Schepers , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , L. Schmitt , M. Böhm , A. Lehmann , M. Pfaffinger , F. Uhlig , S. Stelter , M. Düren , E. Etzelmüller , K. Föhl , A. Hayrapetyan , K. Kreutzfeld , J. Rieke , M. Schmidt , T. Wasem , P. Achenbach , M. Cardinali , M. Hoek , W. Lauth , S. Schlimme , C. Sfienti , M. Thiel

Status of the PANDA Barrel DIRC

The PANDA experiment will use cooled antiproton beams with high intensity stored1 in the High Energy Storage Ring at FAIR. Reactions on a fixed target producing charmed hadrons will shed light on the strong QCD. Three ring imaging Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-03 C. Schwarz , A. Ali , A. Belias , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gerhardt , M. Krebs , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , G. Schepers , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , L. Schmitt , M. Böhm , A. Lehmann , M. Pfaffinger , S. Stelter , F. Uhlig , M. Düren , E. Etzelmüller , K. Föhl , A. Hayrapetyan , I. Köseoglu , K. Kreutzfeld , J. Rieke , M. Schmidt , T. Wasem , C. Sfienti

The PANDA DIRC Detectors at FAIR

The PANDA detector at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) addresses fundamental questions of hadron physics. An excellent hadronic particle identification (PID) will be accomplished by two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-07-31 C. Schwarz , A. Ali , A. Belias , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gerhardt , K. Goetzen , G. Kalicy , M. Krebs , D. Lehmann , F. Nerling , M. Patsyuk , K. Peters , G. Schepers , L. Schmitt , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , M. Zuehlsdorf , M. Boehm , A. Britting , W. Eyrich , A. Lehmann , M. Pfaffinger , F. Uhlig , M. Dueren , E. Etzelmueller , K. Foehl , A. Hayrapetyan , K. Kreutzfeld , B. Kroeck , O. Merle , J. Rieke , M. Schmidt , T. Wasem , P. Achenbach , M. Cardinali , M. Hoek , W. Lauth , S. Schlimme , C. Sfienti , M. Thiel , L. Allison , C. Hyde

The PANDA DIRCs

The PANDA experiment at the FAIR facility adresses open questions in hadron physics with antiproton beams in the momentum range of 1.5-15 GeV/c. The antiprotons are stored and cooled in a High Energy Storage RING (HESR) with a momentum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-27 C. Schwarz , A. Ali , A. Belias , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gerhardt , M. Krebs , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , G. Schepers , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , L. Schmitt , M. Böhm , A. Lehmann , M. Pfaffinger , S. Stelter , M. Düren , E. Etzelmüller , K. Föhl , A. Hayrapetyan , I. Köseoglu , K. Kreutzfeld , M. Schmidt , T. Wasem , C. Sfienti , A. Barnyakov , K. Beloborodov , V. Blinov , S. Kononov , E. Kravchenko , I. Kuyanov

The PANDA DIRC Detectors

The PANDA experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Reasearch (FAIR) will address fundamental questions of hadron physics with unprecedented precision. To reach this goal excellent Particle Identification (PID) is essential…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-15 J. Schwiening

Particle Identification with DIRCs at PANDA

The DIRC technology (Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) offers an excellent possibility to minimize the form factor of Cherenkov detectors in hermetic high energy detectors. The PANDA experiment at FAIR in Germany will…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-30 M. Düren , A. Ali , A. Belias , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gerhardt , M. Krebs , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , G. Schepers , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , L. Schmitt , M. Boehm , A. Lehmann , M. Pfaffinger , S. Stelter , F. Uhlig , E. Etzelmueller , K. Foehl , A. Hayrapetyan , K. Kreutzfeld , J. Rieke , M. Schmidt , T. Wasem , C. Sfienti

Performance of the most recent Microchannel-Plate PMTs for the PANDA DIRC detectors at FAIR

In the PANDA experiment at the FAIR facility at GSI two DIRC (Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) detectors will be used for $\pi$/K separation up to 4 GeV/c. Due to their location in a high magnetic field and other stringent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-29 S. Krauss , M. Böhm , K. Gumbert , A. Lehmann , D. Miehling , A. Belias , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gerhardt , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , G. Schepers , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , Y. Wolf , L. Schmitt , M. Düren , A. Hayrapetyan , I. Köseoglu , M. Schmidt , T. Wasem , C. Sfienti , A. Ali

Technical Design Report for the PANDA Endcap Disc DIRC

PANDA (anti-Proton ANnihiliation at DArmstadt) is planned to be one of the four main experiments at the future international accelerator complex FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany. It is going to address…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-01 Panda Collaboration , F. Davi , W. Erni , B. Krusche , M. Steinacher , N. Walford , H. Liu , Z. Liu , B. Liu , X. Shen , C. Wang , J. Zhao , M. Albrecht , T. Erlen , F. Feldbauer , M. Fink , V. Freudenreich , M. Fritsch , F. H. Heinsius , T. Held , T. Holtmann , I. Keshk , H. Koch , B. Kopf , M. Kuhlmann , M. Kümmel , S. Leiber , P. Musiol , A. Mustafa , M. Pelizäus , A. Pitka , G. Reicherz , M. Richter , C. Schnier , T. Schröder , S. Sersin , L. Sohl , C. Sowa , M. Steinke , T. Triffterer , U. Wiedner , R. Beck , C. Hammann , J. Hartmann , B. Ketzer , M. Kube , M. Rossbach , C. Schmidt , R. Schmitz , U. Thoma , M. Urban , A. Bianconi , M. Bragadireanu , D. Pantea , W. Czyzycki , M. Domagala , G. Filo , J. Jaworowski , M. Krawczyk , E. Lisowski , F. Lisowski , M. Michalek , J. Plazek , K. Korcyl , A. Kozela , P. Kulessa , P. Lebiedowicz , K. Pysz , W. Schäfer , A. Szczurek , T. Fiutowski , M. Idzik , B. Mindur , K. Swientek , J. Biernat , B. Kamys , S. Kistryn , G. Korcyl , W. Krzemien , A. Magiera , P. Moskal , W. Przygoda , Z. Rudy , P. Salabura , J. Smyrski , P. Strzempek , A. Wronska , I. Augustin , R. Böhm , I. Lehmann , D. Nicmorus Marinescu , L. Schmitt , V. Varentsov , M. Al-Turany , A. Belias , H. Deppe , N. Divani Veis , R. Dzhygadlo , H. Flemming , A. Gerhardt , K. Götzen , R. Karabowicz , U. Kurilla , D. Lehmann , S. Löchner , J. Lühning , U. Lynen , S. Nakhoul , H. Orth , K. Peters , T. Saito , G. Schepers , C. J. Schmidt , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , A. Täschner , M. Traxler , B. Voss , P. Wieczorek , A. Wilms , V. Abazov , G. Alexeev , V. A. Arefiev , V. Astakhov , M. Yu. Barabanov , B. V. Batyunya , V. Kh. Dodokhov , A. Efremov , A. Fechtchenko , A. Galoyan , G. Golovanov , E. K. Koshurnikov , Y. Yu. Lobanov , V. I. Lobanov , V. Malyshev , A. G. Olshevskiy , A. A. Piskun , A. Samartsev , M. G. Sapozhnikov , N. B. Skachkov , A. N. Skachkova , E. A. Strokovsky , V. Tokmenin , V. Uzhinsky , A. Verkheev , A. Vodopianov , N. I. Zhuravlev , A. Zinchenko , D. Branford , D. Glazier , D. Watts , M. Böhm , W. Eyrich , A. Lehmann , D. Miehling , M. Pfaffinger , S. Stelter , F. Uhlig , S. Dobbs , K. Seth , A. Tomaradze , T. Xiao , D. Bettoni , A. Ali , A. Hamdi , M. Krebs , F. Nerling , V. Akishina , S. Gorbunov , I. Kisel , G. Kozlov , M. Pugach , M. Zyzak , N. Bianchi , P. Gianotti , C. Guaraldo , V. Lucherini , G. Bracco , S. Bodenschatz , K. T. Brinkmann , V. Di Pietro , S. Diehl , V. Dormenev , M. Düren , E. Etzelmüller , K. Föhl , M. Galuska , T. GeÃŸler , E. Gutz , C. Hahn , A. Hayrapetyan , M. Kesselkaul , W. Kühn , T. Kuske , J. S. Lange , Y. Liang , V. Metag , M. Moritz , M. Nanova , R. Novotny , T. Quagli , A. Riccardi , J. Rieke , M. Schmidt , R. Schnell , H. Stenzel , M. Strickert , U. Thöring , T. Wasem , B. Wohlfahrt , H. G. Zaunick , E. Tomasi-Gustafsson , D. Ireland , G. Rosner , B. Seitz , P. N. Deepak , A. Kulkarni , A. Apostolou , M. Babai , M. Kavatsyuk , H. 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Johansson , A. Kupsc , P. Marciniewski , M. Papenbrock , J. Pettersson , J. Regina , K. Schönning , M. Wolke , J. Diaz , V. Pothodi Chackara , A. Chlopik , G. Kesik , D. Melnychuk , B. Slowinski , A. Trzcinski , M. Wojciechowski , S. Wronka , B. Zwieglinski , P. Bühler , J. Marton , D. Steinschaden , K. Suzuki , E. Widmann , S. Zimmermann , J. Zmeskal

Time imaging reconstruction for the PANDA Barrel DIRC

The innovative Barrel DIRC (Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) counter will provide hadronic particle identification (PID) in the central region of the PANDA experiment at the new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 R. Dzhygadlo , A. Ali , A. Belias , A. Gerhardt , M. Krebs , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , G. Schepers , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , L. Schmitt , M. Böhm , A. Lehmann , M. Pfaffinger , S. Stelter , F. Uhlig , M. Düren , E. Etzelmüller , K. Föhl , A. Hayrapetyan , I. Köseoglu , K. Kreutzfeld , J. Rieke , M. Schmidt , T. Wasem , C. Sfienti

The Innovative Design of the Endcap Disc DIRC Detector for PANDA at FAIR

The key component of the future PANDA experiment at FAIR is a fixed-target detector for collisions of antiprotons with a proton target up to a beam momentum of 15 GeV/c and is designed to address a large number of open questions in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-24 M. Schmidt , M. Düren , E. Etzelmüller , K. Föhl , A. Hayrapetyan , I. Köseoglu , K. Kreutzfeld , J. Rieke , A. Ali , A. Belias , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gerhardt , M. Krebs , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , G. Schepers , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , L. Schmitt , M. Böhm , A. Lehmann , M. Pfaffinger , S. Stelter , F. Uhlig , C. Sfienti

Barrel time-of-flight detector for the PANDA experiment at FAIR

The barrel time-of-flight detector for the PANDA experiment at FAIR is foreseen as a Scintillator Tile (SciTil) Hodoscope based on several thousand small plastic scintillator tiles read-out with directly attached Silicon Photomultipliers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Gruber , S. E. Brunner , J. Marton , H. Orth , K. Suzuki

Lifetime and performance of the very latest microchannel-plate photomultipliers

The PANDA experiment at the FAIR facility at GSI will study hadron physics using a high intensity antiproton beam of up to 15 GeV/c momentum to perform high precision spectroscopy. Two DIRC detectors with their image planes residing in an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-29 D. Miehling , M. Böhm , K. Gumbert , S. Krauss , A. Lehmann , A. Belias , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gerhardt , D. Lehmann , K. Peters , G. Schepers , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , M. Traxler , Y. Wolf , L. Schmitt , M. Düren , A. Hayrapetyan , I. Köseoglu , M. Schmidt , T. Wasem , C. Sfienti , A. Ali

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

Optical Properties of the DIRC Fused Silica Cherenkov Radiator

The DIRC is a new type of Cherenkov detector that is successfully operating as the hadronic particle identification system for the BABAR experiment at SLAC. The fused silica bars that serve as the DIRC's Cherenkov radiators must transmit…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Convery , B. Ratcliff , X. Sarazin , J. Schwiening , J. Va'vra

Time resolution below 100 ps for the SciTil detector of PANDA employing SiPM

The barrel time-of-flight (TOF) detector for the PANDA experiment at FAIR in Darmstadt is planned as a scintillator tile hodoscope (SciTil) using 8000 small scintillator tiles. It will provide fast event timing for a software trigger in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 S. E. Brunner , L. Gruber , J. Marton , H. Orth , K. Suzuki