CASTOR: A dedicated detector for the detection of centauros and strangelets at the LHC

Angelis, A. L. S.; Panagiotou, A.

doi:10.1088/0954-3899/23/12/032

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“…These events appear exclusive when all products of the proton remnant miss the cms hadronic calorimetry coverage. In order to reduce this background, the very forward detectors zdc [16,17] and castor [18] can be used. A study based on generator level particles estimates that approximately 2/3 of inelastic events could be suppressed using these forward detectors.…”

Section: Event Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exclusive dilepton and Upsilon production with CMS: a feasibility study

Ovyn¹

2008

Proceedings of the XVI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics

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Exclusive production of dileptons with no significant additional activity in the CMS detector occurs with high cross section in gamma-mediated processes at the LHC. A feasibility study based on a full CMS simulation concludes that selecting events with a single pair of back-to-back µ + µ − or e + e − provides a high-statistics calibration sample, e.g. for luminosity measurement and alignment of forward proton detectors. Photoproduction of Upsilon mesons, another copious source of exclusive dileptons, is also presented. Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects,7-11 April 2008,London,United Kingdom Exclusive dilepton and Upsilon production with CMS: a feasibility study S. Ovyn, on behalf of the CMS Collaboration Université catholique de Louvain Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenolgy (CP3) B-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Presented at XVI International Workshop onExclusive production of dileptons with no significant additional activity in the cms detector occurs with high cross section in gamma-mediated processes at the lhc. A feasibility study based on a full cms simulation concludes that selecting events with a single pair of back-to-back µ + µ − or e + e − provides a high-statistics calibration sample, e.g. for luminosity measurement and alignment of forward proton detectors. Photoproduction of Upsilon mesons, another copious source of exclusive dileptons, is also presented.

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Section: Event Selectionmentioning

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Exclusive dilepton and Upsilon production with CMS: a feasibility study

Ovyn¹

2008

Proceedings of the XVI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics

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“…CMS further proposed the CASTOR calorimeter [5] and two zero degree calorimeters (ZDCs) [6]. The CASTOR detector will extend the acceptance out to very large rapidity (up to |η| = 7).…”

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Heavy Ion Physics with the CMS detector at the LHC

Roland¹

2007

Proceedings of International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics — PoS(HEP2005)

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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will collide protons at √ S = 14 TeV and lead ions at √ S NN = 5.5 TeV. The physics program of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) includes the study of heavy ion collisions. The CMS detector consists of a 13 m long, 6 m wide superconducting solenoid providing a uniform 4 T magnetic field. Charged particles will be measured with a large acceptance, high resolution silicon tracker consisting of pixel and strip detector layers. The tracker is surrounded by electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters located inside the magnet while the muon detector is positioned on the outside. The central detector will be complemented by CASTOR, a proposed forward calorimeter, and a Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC). The CMS data acquisition system, with its reliance on a multipurpose, high-level trigger system, is uniquely qualified for efficient triggering in high-multiplicity heavy ion events. The high energies available at the LHC will allow high statistics studies of the dense partonic system with hard probes: heavy quarks and quarkonia with an emphasis on the b and ϒ; high p T jets; photons and Z 0 bosons.

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“…A set of forward calorimeters, including two Zero Degree Calorimeters (ZDCs) [8] and CASTOR [6], have been proposed to complement the existing detector for heavy ion studies. The ZDCs improve the collision centrality determination while CASTOR, covering 5 < |η| < 7, allows studies of charged and neutral particle energy fluctuations.…”

Section: The Cms Detectormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The evaluation of simulated data indicates that CMS will be an excellent detector for event-by-event charged multiplicity and energy flow measurements as well as azimuthal asymmetry [3]; quarkonia and heavy quarks [4]; high-p T particles and jets, including detailed studies of jet fragmentation, jet shapes and jet+jet, jet+γ and jet+Z correlations [5]; energy flow measurements in the very forward region, including neutral and charged energy fluctuations [6]; studies of ultraperipheral collisions [3]; and pp, pA and AA comparison studies.…”

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Heavy Ion Physics with the CMS experiment at the LHC

Wyslouch¹

2003

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on High Energy Physics Ichep 2002

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The LHC will collide protons at √ s = 14 TeV and lead beams at √ s N N = 5.5 TeV as well as other AA and pA combinations. The physics program of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) includes the study of heavy ion collisions. The collision energy, much higher than at RHIC, will allow the study of the dense partonic system with very hard probes: heavy quarks and quarkonia with an emphasis on b and Υ, W ± and Z bosons, high p T jets and photons. The production of these particles is likely to be modified, relative to pp collisions, by the presence of the hot medium.

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CASTOR: A dedicated detector for the detection of centauros and strangelets at the LHC

Cited by 19 publications

References 16 publications

Exclusive dilepton and Upsilon production with CMS: a feasibility study

Exclusive dilepton and Upsilon production with CMS: a feasibility study

Heavy Ion Physics with the CMS detector at the LHC

Heavy Ion Physics with the CMS experiment at the LHC

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