Abstract
The BM@N (Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron) is the first experiment in operation at the NICA-Nuclotron accelerator complex. The BM@N scientific program comprises the study of dense nuclear matter produced in heavy-ion collisions in the intermediate energy range between the SYS-18 and NICA/FAIR facilities. The first experiments were performed with deuteron and carbon beams with kinetic energy ranging from 3.5 to 4.5 GeV per nucleon on fixed targets. An extended configuration of the BM@N setup was realized in the next runs with argon and krypton beams. First preliminary physics results are presented on \(\Lambda \) hyperon production in carbon–nucleus interactions at a beam kinetic energy of 4 GeV per nucleon. Signals of \(\Lambda \) hyperons, charged pions, kaons and light nuclear fragments are identified in argon–nucleus interactions. The performance of the upgraded BM@N central tracker is evaluated for the reconstruction of strange particles and hypernuclei in heavy-ion interactions.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
REFERENCES
J. Steinheimer et al., Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 62, 313317 (2009).
J. Steinheimer, K. Gudima, A. Botvina, I. Mishustin, M. Bleicher, and H. Stocker, Phys. Lett. B 714, 85 (2012).
NICA White Paper. http://theor0.jinr.ru/twiki-cgi/view/NICA/NICAWhitePaper.
BM@N Conceptual Design Report. http://nica.jinr.ru/files/BM@N/BMN_CDR.pdf.
D. Suvarieva et al., J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 668, 012121 (2016).
V. Friese, “Strangeness prospects with the CBM experiment,” in SQM-2015 Conference (Dubna, 2015).
D. Baranov et al., JINST 12, C06041 (2017).
M. Kapishin (BM@N Collab.), Eur. Phys. J. A 52, 213 (2016).
M. Kapishin (BM@N Collab.), Phys. Atom. Nucl. 80, 1613–1619 (2017).
M. Kapishin (BM@N Collab.), Nucl. Phys. A 982, 967–970 (2019).
M. Kapishin, in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Nucleus–Nucleus Collisions (NN 2018) (2020), artic. no. 010093.
M. Kapishin (BM@N Collab.), Springer Proc. Phys. 250, 21–27 (2020).
V. Akishina and I. Kisel, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 599, 012024 (2015);
I. Kisel, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A 566, 85 (2006).
D. Baranov et al., Phys. Part. Nucl. Lett. 15, 148–156 (2018).
N. Amelin, K. Gudima, and V. Toneev, Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 51, 1093 (1990).
S. Arakelian et al., Report No. P1-83-354 (JINR, Dubna, 1983).
D. Armutlijsky et al., Report No. P1-85-220 (JINR, Dubna, 1985).
K. Kanaki, “Study of \(\Lambda \) hyperon production in C + C collisions at 2A GeV beam energy with the HADES spectrometer,” PhD Thesis (Dresden Tech. Univ., Dresden, 2007).
F. Guber et al., “Measurement of centrality in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the BM@N experiment,” in Proceedings of the Conference “RFBR Grants for NICA” (Dubna, 2020).
P. Senger, D. Dementev, J. Heuser, M. Kapishin, E. Lavrik, Yu. Murin, A. Maksymchuk, H. R. Schmidt, Ch. Schmidt, A. Senger, and A. Zinchenko, “Upgrading the baryonic matter at the nuclotron experiment at NICA for studies of dense nuclear matter,” Particles 2, 481 (2019).
S. Gorbunov and I. Kisel, Reconstruction of Decayed Particles Based on the Kalman Filter. CBM-SOFT-note-2007-003 (2007).
A. Zinchenko et al., “Performance evaluation of the upgraded BM@N setup for the strangeness production studies,” in Proceedings of the Conference “RFBR Grants for NICA” (Dubna, 2020).
Funding
This work is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) under grant no. 18-02-40036 mega.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Kapishin, M., Alishina, K., Batyuk, P. et al. Production of Hyperons, Strange Mesons and Search for Hypernuclei in Interactions of Carbon, Argon and Krypton Beams in the BM@N Experiment. Phys. Part. Nuclei 52, 710–719 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779621040304
Received:
Revised:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779621040304