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The CBM experiment will investigate heavy-ion collisions at beam energies from 8 to 45 AGeV at the future accelerator facility FAIR. The goal of the experiment is to study the QCD phase diagram in the vincinity of the QCD critical point. To do so, CBM aims at measuring rare probes among them open charm. In order to identify those rare and short lived particles despite the rich combinatorial background generated in heavy ion collisions, a micro vertex detector (MVD) providing an unprecedented combination of high rate capability and radiation hardness, very light material budget and excellent granularity is required. In this work, we will discuss the concept of this detector and summarize the status of the R&D.
Das CBM-Experiment an der zukünftigen FAIR Beschleunigeranlage zielt unter anderem darauf, Open-Charm-Teilchen zu rekonstruieren, die in Schwerionenkollisionen im Energiebereich von 10 bis 40 AGeV erzeugt werden. Ein für diese Teilchenrekonstruktion essentieller Detektor ist der Mikro-Vertex-Detektor (MVD).
Im Rahmen der Entwicklungsarbeiten für diesen Detektor werden regelmäßig Detektorsimulationen durchgeführt. Bei einer dieser Simulationen [CAD11], wurden nach Einführung eines verbesserten Simulationsmodells des Detektors, Einbrüche in Rekonstruktionseffizienz für Open-Charm Teilchen festgestellt. Als mögliche Ursache wurde eine Überlastung der Software für die Spurrekonstruktion von CBM vermutet, die erstmals mit realistischen Trefferdichten auf den MVD-Stationen konfrontiert war. Zusätzlich wurde in der Simulation die Geometrie eines MVD mit nur zwei Detektorebenen verwendet. Auch der durch die kleine Anzahl an MVD-Stationen große Abstand zwischen MVD und STS (Silicon-Tracking-System) und dessen potentiell ungünstiger Einfluss auf die Spurrekonstruktion konnte als Ursache für den beobachteten Einbruch der Rekonstruktionseffizienz nicht ausgeschlossen werden.
Die Aufgabe dieser Arbeit bestand in der Prüfung, ob der beobachtete Einbruch der Rekonstruktionseffizienz des Detektorsystems tatsächlich auf eine Überlastung der Spurrekonstruktionssoftware zurückzuführen ist. Darüber hinaus sollte festgestellt werden, ob mögliche konstruktive Verbesserungen im MVD (zusätzliche Detektorstationen) diesem Effekt entgegen wirken können...
Impact parameter sensitive study of inner-shell atomic processes in Xe54+, Xe52+ → Xe collisions
(2020)
In this work, we present a pilot experiment in the experimental storage ring (ESR) at GSI devoted to impact parameter sensitive studies of inner shell atomic processes for bare and He-like xenon ions (Xe54+, Xe52+) colliding with neutral xenon gas atoms. The projectile and target x-rays have been measured at different observation angles for all impact parameters as well as for the impact parameter range of ∼35 - 70 fm.
An experiment addressing electron capture (EC) decay of hydrogen-like 142Pm60+ions has been conducted at the experimental storage ring (ESR) at GSI. The decay appears to be purely exponential and no modulations were observed. Decay times for about 9000 individual EC decays have been measured by applying the single-ion decay spectroscopy method. Both visually and automatically analysed data can be described by a single exponential decay with decay constants of 0.0126(7)s−1 for automatic analysis and 0.0141(7)s−1 for manual analysis. If a modulation superimposed on the exponential decay curve is assumed, the best fit gives a modulation amplitude of merely 0.019(15), which is compatible with zero and by 4.9 standard deviations smaller than in the original observation which had an amplitude of 0.23(4).
The radiative electron capture (REC) into the K shell of bare Xe ions colliding with a hydrogen gas target has been investigated. In this study, the degree of linear polarization of the K-REC radiation was measured and compared with rigorous relativistic calculations as well as with the previous results recorded for U92+. Owing to the improved detector technology, a significant gain in precision of the present polarization measurement is achieved compared to the previously published results. The obtained data confirms that for medium-Z ions such as Xe, the REC process is a source of highly polarized x rays which can easily be tuned with respect to the degree of linear polarization and the photon energy. We argue, in particular, that for relatively low energies the photons emitted under large angles are almost fully linear polarized.
The electron-capture process was studied for Xe54+ colliding with H2 molecules at the internal gas target of the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) at GSI, Darmstadt. Cross-section values for electron capture into excited projectile states were deduced from the observed emission cross section of Lyman radiation, being emitted by the hydrogenlike ions subsequent to the capture of a target electron. The ion beam energy range was varied between 5.5 and 30.9 MeV/u by applying the deceleration mode of the ESR. Thus, electron-capture data were recorded at the intermediate and, in particular, the low-collision-energy regime, well below the beam energy necessary to produce bare xenon ions. The obtained data are found to be in reasonable qualitative agreement with theoretical approaches, while a commonly applied empirical formula significantly overestimates the experimental findings.
We report the first measurement of low-energy proton-capture cross sections of 124Xe in a heavy-ion storage ring. 124Xe54+ ions of five different beam energies between 5.5 and 8 AMeV were stored to collide with a windowless hydrogen target. The 125Cs reaction products were directly detected. The interaction energies are located on the high energy tail of the Gamow window for hot, explosive scenarios such as supernovae and x-ray binaries. The results serve as an important test of predicted astrophysical reaction rates in this mass range. Good agreement in the prediction of the astrophysically important proton width at low energy is found, with only a 30% difference between measurement and theory. Larger deviations are found above the neutron emission threshold, where also neutron and γ widths significantly impact the cross sections. The newly established experimental method is a very powerful tool to investigate nuclear reactions on rare ion beams at low center-of-mass energies.
The 124Xe(p,γ) reaction has been measured for the first time at energies around the Gamow window by using stored ions at the ESR facility. The desired beam energies below 10 MeV/u introduce new experimental challenges like windowless ions detection under UHV conditions, extremely short beam lifetimes and efficient beam deceleration and cooling, all of which have been successfully met.