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Event classification by centrality is one of the key tasks of the MPD (Multi-Purpose Detector) experiment at the NICA collider. Centrality characterizes the initial geometry of heavy-ion collisions through the correlation of measured…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-26 D. Idrisov , F. Guber , N. Karpushkin , P. Parfenov

The Cooling-Storage-Ring External-target Experiment (CEE) at Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL) is designed to study the properties of nuclear matter created in heavy-ion collisions at a few hundred MeV/$u$ to 1 GeV/$u$ beam…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-01 Wanlong Wu , Xionghong He , Yanyu Ren , Diyu Shen , Shusu Shi , Xu Sun

We present a design for a high-granularity zero-degree calorimeter (ZDC) for the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The design uses SiPM-on-tile technology and features a novel staggered-layer arrangement that improves spatial…

Centrality-dependent measurements of hadron and jet cross section attenuation in deep inelastic scattering on nuclei can shed new light on the physics of final-state interactions in the nuclear matter, including the path-length dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-28 Hai Tao Li , Ze Long Liu , Ivan Vitev

The CUORE experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0nDBD) of 130Te using an array of 988 TeO_2 bolometers operated at 10 mK in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). The detector is housed in a large cryogen-free…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-01-15 S. Sangiorgio , L. M. Ejzak , K. M. Heeger , R. H. Maruyama , A. Nucciotti , M. Olcese , T. S. Wise , A. L. Woodcraft

By relating the charge multiplicity distribution and the temperature of a de-exciting nucleus through a deep neural network, we propose that the charge multiplicity distribution can be used as a thermometer of heavy-ion collisions. Based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 Y. D. Song , R. Wang , Y. G. Ma , X. G. Deng , H. L. Liu

The Cooling Storage Ring (CSR) External-target Experiment(CEE) is the first multi-purpose nuclear physics experimental device to operate in the GeV energy range at the Heavy-Ion Research Facility(HIRFL-CSR) in Lanzhou, China. The primary…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-05 X Wang , D Hu , M Shao , L Zhao , Y Sun , J Lu , H Xu , Y Zhou

High granularity calorimeters have become increasingly crucial in modern particle physics experiments, and their importance is set to grow even further in the future. The CLUstering of Energy (CLUE) algorithm has shown excellent performance…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-07 Erica Brondolin , Marco Rovere , Felice Pantaleo

The cooling storage ring (CSR) external-target experiment (CEE) is a spectrometer running at the Heavy Ion Research Facility (HIRFL) at Lanzhou. The CEE is the first large-scale nuclear physics experimental device by China to operate in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 Y. Zhou , D. Hu , X. Wang , M. Shao , L. Zhao , Y. Sun , J. Lu , H. Xua

We present first results from the ATLAS Zero Degree Calorimeters (ZDC) based on 7~TeV pp collision data recorded in 2010. The ZDC coverage of +/-~350 microradians about the forward direction makes possible the measurement of neutral…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-17 Sebastian N. White

Driven by the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the RHIC, researches and discussions on the QCD phase diagram have flourished recently. In order to provide a reference from microscopic transport models, we performed a systematic analysis,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-04 N. Yu , F. Liu , K. Wu

One of the main goals of heavy-ion collision experiments is to study the structure of the QCD phase diagram. The QCD phase diagram is typically plotted as temperature ($T$) vs. baryon chemical potential ($\mu_{B}$). The statistical thermal…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-08-15 Lokesh Kumar

A new method of event characterization based on Deep Learning is presented. The PointNet models can be used for fast, online event-by-event impact parameter determination at the CBM experiment. For this study, UrQMD and the CBM detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Manjunath Omana Kuttan , Jan Steinheimer , Kai Zhou , Andreas Redelbach , Horst Stoecker

Circular colliders have the advantage of delivering collisions to multiple interaction points, which allow different detector designs to be studied and optimized - up to four for FCC-ee. On the one hand, the detectors must satisfy the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-07-12 Patrizia Azzi , Emmanuel Perez

The interrelation of the processes of total disintegration of nuclei with the processes, characterized by the "centrality" of collisions and a minimum flow of energy of secondary particles emitted at a zero angle in pC, dC, 4HeC and 12CC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. K. Suleimanov , O. B. Abdinov , A. I. Anoshin , J. Bogdanowicz , A. A. Kuznetsov

Measurements of charged jet production as a function of centrality are presented for p-Pb collisions recorded at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector. Centrality classes are determined via the energy deposit in neutron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-06-14 ALICE Collaboration

We present a novel implementation of classification using the machine learning / artificial intelligence method called boosted decision trees (BDT) on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The firmware implementation of binary…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-04-12 Tae Min Hong , Benjamin Carlson , Brandon Eubanks , Stephen Racz , Stephen Roche , Joerg Stelzer , Daniel Stumpp

With centre-of-mass energies covering the Z pole, the WW threshold, the HZ production, and the top-pair threshold, the FCC-ee offers unprecedented possibilities to measure the properties of the four heaviest particles of the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-02 Martin Aleksa , Franco Bedeschi , Roberto Ferrari , Felix Sefkow , Christopher G. Tully

Cluster production plays an important role in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate beam energies, where light nuclei contribute substantially to final-state yields and to other observables that are used to infer the nuclear equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 Oleh Savchuk , Pawel Danielewicz , William Lynch , Jérôme Margueron