Περίληψη:
We present a phenomenological model describing the formation of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) fireball in the very forward, baryon-rich rapidity region in nucleus-nucleus interactions, and its subsequent decay into baryons and possibly strangelets. The model explains the centauro events observed in cosmic rays and the long-penetrating component frequently accompanying them, and makes predictions for the LHC. We describe the CASTOR calorimeter, a subdetector to probe the very forward, baryon-rich rapidity region in Pb + Pb collisions at the LHC. The simulated response of the calorimeter to new effects is presented and its sensitivity is derived using a neural network technique.
Συγγραφείς:
Angelis, A.L.S.
Aslanoglou, X.
Bartke, J.
Chileev, K.
Glłedysz-Dziaduś, E.
Golubeva, M.
Guber, F.
Karavitcheva, T.
Kharlov, Y.V.
Kurepin, A.B.
Mavromanolakis, G.
Panagiotou, A.D.
Sadovsky, S.A.
Tiflov, V.V.
Wlłodarczyk, Z.
