MEPhI has held a seminar, which was attended by the head of the international CBM collaboration (GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, Germany) Professor Peter Senger and the Head of the GSI Detector Laboratory Professor Christian Schmidt. The visit took place at the invitation of the MEPhI Center for nanostructured electronics and the MEPhI Department № 67 “Condensed Matter Physics”.
The workshop presented the development status of a universal detector CBM (Compressed Baryonic Matter) for the new accelerator complex FAIR (Germany). Participants of the seminar discussed the participation of MEPhI in the work of the collaboration.
The scientific program of the CBM experiment includes research of extreme states of nuclear matter and phase transition to the quark-gluon plasma at high baryon density in nucleus-nucleus collisions; studies of the structure and equation of state of baryonic matter at densities comparable to the density of neutron stars’ cores; search for boundaries between phases of baryon and quark-gluon matters; search for critical points and signs of the restoration beginning of chiral symmetry at high baryon density.
Unlike experiments conducted at the RHIC and LHC colliders, the CBM experiment at FAIR will focus on a detailed study of matter properties at very high values of the baryon density that can be achieved under earth conditions.
It is to be recalled that cutting-edge accelerator complex FAIR, which is under construction in Darmstadt (Germany), will provide high-energy, precision adjusted beams of antiprotons and different ions, which intensity exceeds currently available beams in 100 - 1000 times.
The event also included an Open day of the Group of relativistic heavy ions. Everyone wishing to enter master or postgraduate study met with members of the Group and discussed all their questions. Also there was a meeting with the head of the Physical group for the study of collective flow and correlations in the CBM collaboration, the GSI employee, Professor of the Department №67 I.V. Selyuzhenkov.
