Forward hadron calorimeter (PSD) of NA61/SHINE for heavy ion studies and its upgrade for experiments beyond 2020
S. Morozov*,
F. Guber,
A. Ivashkin,
M. Golubeva on behalf of the NA61/SHINE Collaboration*: corresponding author
Published on:
September 19, 2019
Abstract
The Projectile Spectator Detector (PSD) is a segmented modular hadron calorimeter currently used in the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS. The PSD is used for collision centrality determination as well as for estimation of the event plane orientation in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The main goal of the NA61/SHINE experiment includes studying the onset of deconfinement and searching for the critical point of strongly interacting matter. It is of crucial importance to have a precise event class characterization for the analysis of event-by-event observables. The PSD has been already used for centrality selection at the trigger level in measurements of Be+Be, Ar+Sc, Xe+La and Pb+Pb reactions at a wide range of beam energies (13 - 158 AGeV). The performance of the PSD in different collision systems will be shown and the proposed upgrade of the forward hadron calorimeter system for future experiments planned at NA61/SHINE beyound 2020 will be presented.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.347.0195
How to cite
Metadata are provided both in
article format (very
similar to INSPIRE)
as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which
can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in
proceeding format which
is more detailed and complete.