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B. Bhattacharjee

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arXiv2026

Demonstrating CBM Capabilities by $\Lambda$ Baryon Reconstruction in Ni+Ni Collisions with the mCBM Experiment at SIS18 of GSI/FAIR

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the upcoming Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is a high-rate fixed-target experiment designed to investigate nuclear matter at extreme baryon densities in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. To enable high-statistics measurements of rare probes, CBM is designed to operate at event rates up to 10 MHz. This necessitates the development of fast and radiation-tolerant detectors, self-triggered front-end electronics, a free-streaming data acquisition architecture, and real-time event reconstruction capabilities. Prototype versions and pre-series productions of the CBM detector systems have been deployed in the mini-CBM demonstrator setup mCBM - an experimental precursor comprising sub-components of all major CBM systems, installed at the SIS18 facility of GSI/FAIR within the FAIR Phase-0 program. In 2024, Ni+Ni collisions at a kinetic beam energy of 1.93 AGeV and an average interaction rate of about 250 kHz were successfully recorded. This dataset enables a detailed evaluation of the operational performance of the detector systems as well as the complete CBM data chain, while the reconstruction of rare $\Lambda$ baryons serves as a natural benchmark. This paper presents the first results on $\Lambda$ signal reconstruction with the mCBM experiment, demonstrating the readiness of the detector technologies and the data chain for the upcoming full-scale CBM experiment.

physics.ins-det↗

arXiv2017

Strange behavior of rapidity dependent strangeness enhancement of particles containing and not containing leading quarks

Rapidity dependent strangeness enhancement factors for the identified particles have been studied with the help of a string based hadronic transport model UrQMD-3.3 (Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics) at FAIR energies. A strong rapidity dependent strangeness enhancement could be observed with our generated data for $Au + Au$ collisions at the beam energy of 30\textit{A} GeV. The strangeness enhancement is found to be maximum at mid-rapidity for the particles containing leading quarks while for particles consisting of produced quarks only, the situation is seen to be otherwise. Such rapidity dependent strangeness enhancement could be traced back to the dependence of rapidity width on centrality or otherwise on the distribution of net-baryon density.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2017

Challenges in QCD matter physics - The Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at FAIR

Substantial experimental and theoretical efforts worldwide are devoted to explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. At LHC and top RHIC energies, QCD matter is studied at very high temperatures and nearly vanishing net-baryon densities. There is evidence that a Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) was created at experiments at RHIC and LHC. The transition from the QGP back to the hadron gas is found to be a smooth cross over. For larger net-baryon densities and lower temperatures, it is expected that the QCD phase diagram exhibits a rich structure, such as a first-order phase transition between hadronic and partonic matter which terminates in a critical point, or exotic phases like quarkyonic matter. The discovery of these landmarks would be a breakthrough in our understanding of the strong interaction and is therefore in the focus of various high-energy heavy-ion research programs. The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR will play a unique role in the exploration of the QCD phase diagram in the region of high net-baryon densities, because it is designed to run at unprecedented interaction rates. High-rate operation is the key prerequisite for high-precision measurements of multi-differential observables and of rare diagnostic probes which are sensitive to the dense phase of the nuclear fireball. The goal of the CBM experiment at SIS100 (sqrt(s_NN) = 2.7 - 4.9 GeV) is to discover fundamental properties of QCD matter: the phase structure at large baryon-chemical potentials (mu_B > 500 MeV), effects of chiral symmetry, and the equation-of-state at high density as it is expected to occur in the core of neutron stars. In this article, we review the motivation for and the physics programme of CBM, including activities before the start of data taking in 2022, in the context of the worldwide efforts to explore high-density QCD matter.

nucl-ex↗

arXiv2014

Separate mass scaling of the widths of the rapidity distributions for mesons and baryons at energies available at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion research

Evolution of the width of the rapidity distribution on beam rapidity has been studied for a number of produced particles with UrQMD-3.3p1 generated events at various FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) energies. The results for the width of the rapidity distribution with beam rapidity, obtained with UrQMD generated events, are compared with the existing experimental data (E802, E877, E896, E917, NA49). For both UrQMD and experimental data, the width of the rapidity distribution is found to bear scaling behavior with beam rapidity for all the hadrons. Such scaling behavior is found to follow separate mass ordering for the studied mesons and and baryons.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2009

Brans-Dicke wormholes in the Jordan and Einstein frames

We examine the possibility of static wormhole solutions in the vacuum Brans-Dicke theory both in the original (Jordan) frame and in the conformally rescaled (Einstein) frame. It turns out that, in the former frame, wormholes exist only in a very narrow interval of the coupling parameter, viz., -3/2<omega<-4/3. It is shown that these wormholes are not traversable in practice. In the latter frame, wormhole solutions do not exist at all unless energy conditions are violated by hand.

gr-qc↗

arXiv2004

Multifragmentation Studies in 84Kr Interactions with Nuclear Emulsion at around 1 A GeV

Projectile fragmentation of 84Kr in three different energy intervals has been studied. Many aspects of multifragmentation process have been examined in depth. It is observed that multifragmentation is a general low energy phenomenon associated with heavy beam. The number of Intermediate-Mass-Fragments (IMF's) shows strong projetile mass dependence.

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arXiv2004

Estimation of Impact Parameter on event-by-event basis in Nuclear Emulsion Detector

Photographic Nuclear Emulsion Detector (PNED) has been in use in nuclear and particle physics experiments from the begining, often as the major detector system. However, direct measurement of impact parameter in this detector does not seem possible due to some limitations. This paper discribe a simple yet strong method to estimate the impact parameter of events on event-by-event basis. Though this method is develpoed specifically for the photographic nuclear emulsion detector, we envision that it should also be applicable to other multi-target detector systems.

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