1. Formation of Centauro in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC and their detection with the CASTOR detector of CMS
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M. Golubeva, V. V. Tiflov, S. A. Sadovsky, G. Mavromanolakis, E. Gładysz-Dziaduś, J. Bartke, K. Chileev, A. L. S. Angelis, A. B. Kurepin, Yu. V. Kharlov, T.L. Karavitcheva, Z. Wlodarczyk, X. Aslanoglou, F. Guber, and Apostolos Panagiotou
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Large Hadron Collider ,Calorimeter (particle physics) ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Strangelet ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Nuclear Theory ,Cosmic ray ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Nuclear physics ,Baryon ,Strange matter ,Rapidity ,Nuclear Experiment ,CASTOR calorimeter - Abstract
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 centauro events observed in cosmic ray data and the long-penetrating 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.
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- 2003
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