Περίληψη:
We present a specialized detector system, CASTOR, which, as an integral
part of the ALICE experiment, will search for centauros and strangelets
in central Pb + Ph collisions at the LHC. CASTOR will cover the very
forward, baryon-rich pseudorapidity region 4.5 less than or equal to eta
less than or equal to 6.2 and will consist of a charged particle
multiplicity detector, a photon multiplicity detector and a calorimeter
with electromagnetic and hadronic sections. The physics motivation is
presented, along with simulation results and the detector design. The
influence of the background on the identification of centauro-type
events is discussed.
