Formation of Centauro in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC and their detection with the CASTOR detector of CMS

✍ Scribed by A.L.S. Angelis; X. Aslanoglou; J. Bartke; K. Chileev; E. Gładysz-Dziaduś; M. Golubeva; F. Guber; T. Karavitcheva; Y.V. Kharlov; A.B. Kurepin; G. Mavromanolakis; A.D. Panagiotou; S.A. Sadovsky; V.V. Tiflov; Z. Włodarczyk

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 662 KB
• Volume: 122
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)80379-1

✦ Synopsis

We present a phenomenological model describing the formation of a Deconfined Quark Matter fireball in the very forward, baryon-rich rapidity region in nucleus-nucleus interactions, and its subsequent decay into baryons and possibly strangelets. The model explains the centaur0 events observed in cosmic ray data and the longpenetrating component frequently accompanying them, and makes predictions for the LHC. We describe the CASTOR calorimeter, a subdetector under consideration at the CMS experiment, to probe the very forward, baryon-rich rapidity region in Pb + Pb collisions at the LHC. The simulated response of the calorimeter to new effects is presented and its sensitivity is derived using a neural network technique. *Corresponding author, email aris.angelisQcern.ch, centaur0 arise through the hadronization of a http://angelis.home.cern.ch/angelis/castor/Welcome.html