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1. Measurements of hadron production in 90 GeV/c proton-carbon interactions

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Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Chandak, Y., Ćirković, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gaździcki, M., Gollwitzer, K. E., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Hurh, P. G., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Karpushkin, N., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishimori, S., Olivier, A., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Rybka, D., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Świderski, Ł., Szewiński, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Veberič, D., Vitiuk, O., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Witek, K., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zherebtsova, A. Zaitsev E., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zviagina, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

This paper presents the multiplicity of neutral and charged hadrons produced in 90 GeV$/c$ proton-carbon interactions from a dataset taken by the NA61/SHINE experiment in 2017. Particle identification via dE/dx was performed for the charged hadrons $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, and $p / \bar{p}$; the neutral hadrons $K^0_S$, $\Lambda$, and $\bar{\Lambda}$ were identified via an invariant mass analysis of their decays to charged hadrons. Double-differential multiplicity results as a function of laboratory momentum and polar angle are presented for each particle species; these results provide vital constraints on the predicted neutrino beam flux for current and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.

Published
2024

2. Measurements of higher-order cumulants of multiplicity and net-electric charge distributions in inelastic proton-proton interactions by NA61/SHINE

Author

NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Borucka, A., Brandin, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Ćirković, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishimori, S., Olivier, A., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Reyna-Ortiz, V. Z., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Rybka, D., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Świderski, Ł., Szewiński, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vitiuk, O., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Witek, K., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zherebtsova, E., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

This paper presents the energy dependence of multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in p+p interactions at beam momenta 20, 31, 40, 80, and 158 GeV/c. Results are corrected for the experimental biases and quantified with the use of cumulants and factorial cumulants. Cumulant ratios are an essential tool in the search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter in heavy ion collisions. Measurements performed in p+p interactions provide a vital baseline estimation in these studies. The measured signals are compared with the string hadronic models EPOS1.99 and FTFP-BERT., Comment: 28 pages, 10 figures. The version to be published in Eur. Phys. J. C

Published
2023

3. Evidence of isospin-symmetry violation in high-energy collisions of atomic nuclei

Author

Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Brandin, A., Brylinski, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Cirkovic, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gazdzicki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskret, M., Nishimori, S., Olivier, A., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzovic, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Rybka, D., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Swiderski, Ł., Szewinski, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vitiuk, O., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Witek, K., Wójcik, K., Wyszynski, O., Zaitsev, A., Zherebtsova, E., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., Zwaska, R., Group, the Theory, Giacosa, F., Gorenstein, M. I., Poberezhniuk, R., and Samanta, S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Strong interactions preserve an approximate isospin symmetry between up ($u$) and down ($d$) quarks, part of the more general flavor symmetry. In the case of $K$ meson production, if this isospin symmetry were exact, it would result in equal numbers of charged ($K^+$ and $K^-$) and neutral ($K^0$ and $\overline K^{\,0}$) mesons in the final state. Here, we report results on the relative abundance of charged over neutral $K$ meson production in argon and scandium nuclei collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 11.9 GeV per nucleon pair. We find that the production of $K^+$ and $K^-$ mesons at mid-rapidity is $(18.4\pm 6.1)\%$ higher than that of the neutral $K$ mesons. Although with large uncertainties, earlier data on nucleus-nucleus collisions in the collision center-of-mass energy range $2.6 < \sqrt{s_{NN}} < 200$~\GeV are consistent with the present result. Using well-established models for hadron production, we demonstrate that known isospin-symmetry breaking effects and the initial nuclei containing more neutrons than protons lead only to a small (few percent) deviation of the charged-to-neutral kaon ratio from unity at high energies. Thus, they cannot explain the measurements. The significance of the flavor-symmetry violation beyond the known effects is 4.7$\sigma$ when the compilation of world data with uncertainties quoted by the experiments is used. New systematic, high-precision measurements and theoretical efforts are needed to establish the origin of the observed large isospin-symmetry breaking., Comment: The paper includes updates based on the final results of $K^+$ and $K^-$ yields published in Eur. Phys. J.C 84 (2024) 4, 416

Published
2023

4. Measurements of higher-order cumulants of multiplicity and net-electric charge distributions in inelastic proton–proton interactions by NA61/SHINE

Author

Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Arsene, I.-C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Borucka, A., Brandin, A., Bryliński, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Ćirković, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gaździcki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H.-J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskręt, M., Nishimori, S., Olivier, A., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Rybka, D., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Świderski, Ł., Szewiński, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vitiuk, O., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Witek, K., Wójcik, K., Wyszyński, O., Zaitsev, A., Zherebtsova, E., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.

Published
2024
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5. Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA

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MPD Collaboration, Abgaryan, V., Kado, R. Acevedo, Afanasyev, S. V., Agakishiev, G. N., Alpatov, E., Altsybeev, G., Hernández, M. Alvarado, Andreeva, S. V., Andreeva, T. V., Andronov, E. V., Anfimov, N. V., Aparin, A. A., Astakhov, V. I., Atkin, E., Aushev, T., Averichev, G. S., Averyanov, A. V., Ayala, A., Babkin, V. A., Babutsidze, T., Balashov, I. A., Bancer, A., Barabanov, M. Yu., Baranov, D. A., Baranova, N., Barbashina, N., Baskakov, A. E., Batyuk, P. N., Bazhazhin, A. G., Baznat, D., Baznat, M., Bazylev, S. N., Beltran, L. G. E., Belyaev, A. V., Belyaev, S. E., Belyaeva, E. V., Benda, V., Bielewicz, M., Bietenholz, W., Blaschke, D., Blau, D., Bogdanova, G., Bogoslovsky, D. N., Boguslavsky, I. V., Boos, E., Botvina, A., Bravina, L., Bulychjov, S. A., Buryakov, M. G., Butenko, A. V., Butorin, A. V., Buzin, S. G., Bychkov, A., Bychkov, A. V., Cabellero, R. R., Arciniega, D. Chaires, Chalyshev, V. V., Chen, W., Chen, Z., Cheplakova, V. A., Chepurnov, V. F., Chepurnov, V. V., Cheremnova, M., Cheremukhina, G. A., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Chumakov, P. V., Cuautle, E., Czarnynoga, M., Dabrowska, B., Dąbrowski, D., Demanov, A., Dementyev, D. V., Deng, Z., Dmitriev, A. V., Dodokhov, V. Kh., Dolbilina, E. V., Dolbilov, A. G., Domínguez, I., Dominik, W., Donets, D. E., Dronik, V., Dubrovin, A. Yu., Dudziński, A., Dulov, P., Dunin, N. V., Dunin, V. B., Dyatlov, V., Dydyshko, V. F., Efremov, A. A., Egorov, D. S., Elsha, V. V., Emelyanov, A. E., Emelyanov, N. E., Ermakova, V. G., Eyyubova, G., Fang, D., Fateev, O. V., Fedin, O., Fedotov, Yu. I., Fedyunin, A. A., Feng, C., Feng, S., Feofilov, G. A., Filippov, I. A., Fischer, T., Formenko, K., Gaganova, M. A., Gandzhelashvili, T. T., Gavrishchuk, O. P., Geraksiev, N., Gerasimov, S. E., Gertsenberger, K. V., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V. M., Golubeva, M., Goncharov, I., Gorbunov, N. V., Grabowski, M., Grodzicka-Kobyłka, M., Grodzicki, K., Grzyb, J., Guber, F., Guirado, A., Guskov, A. V., Guzey, V., He, W., Rosas, L. A. Hernández, Huang, M., Huang, Y., Idczak, R., Idrisov, D., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, M., Isupov, A. Yu., Ivanishchev, D., Ivanov, A. V., Ivanytskyi, O., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Jaworska, E., Jiao, J., Kadochnikov, I., Kakurin, S. I., Kankiewicz, P., Kapishin, M. N., Karmanov, D., Karpushkin, N., Kartashova, L. A., Kashirin, E., Kasprowicz, G., Kasumov, Yu., Kechechyan, A. O., Kekelidze, G. D., Kekelidze, V. D., Khanzadeev, A., Kharlamov, P., Khilinova, O. A., Khodzhibagiyan, G. G., Khosravi, N., Khvorostukhin, A., Khyzhniak, Y., Kikvadze, V., Kireyeu, V. A., Kiryushin, Yu. T., Kiryutin, I. S., Kisiel, A., Klyuev, A., Klyukhin, V., Kochenda, L., Kodolova, O., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolozhvari, A., Komarov, V. G., Kondratiev, V. P., Korolev, M., Korotkikh, V., Kotov, D., Kovalenko, S., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozlenko, N. A., Krakowiak, M., Kramarenko, V. A., Krasnova, L. M., Kravchov, P., Krechetov, Yu. F., Kruglova, I. V., Krylov, A. V., Krylov, V., Kryshen, E., Kryukov, A., Kubankin, A., Kugler, A., Kuich, M., Kukarnikov, S. I., Kuklin, S. N., Kukulin, V., Kuleshov, S., Kulikov, E. A., Kulikov, V. V., Kurepin, A., Kushpil, S., Kuzmin, V. S., Kvita, J., Lanskoy, D., Lashmanov, N. A., Ławryńczuk, M., Lazareva, T. V., Lednicky, R., Li, S., Li, Z., Litvinenko, A. G, Litvinenko, E. I., Litvinova, G. N., Liu, D., Liu, F., Livanov, A. N., Lobanov, V. I., Lobanov, Yu. Yu., Lobastov, S. P., Lokhtin, I., Lu, P., Lukstinsh, Yu. R., Luong, B. V., Łysakowski, B., Ma, Y., Machavariani, A., Madigozhin, D. T., Maksiak, B., Maksimenkova, V. I., Malakhov, A. I., Malayev, M., Maldonado, I., Maldonado, J. C., Malikov, I. V., Malinina, L., Maltsev, N. A., Maria, N. V., Shopova, M., Martemianov, M. A., Maslan, M., Matsyuk, M. A., Matulewicz, T., Melnikov, D. G., Merkin, M., Merts, S. P., Meshkov, I. N., Mianowski, S., Migulina, I. I., Mikhaylov, K. R., Milewicz-Zalewska, M., Minaev, Yu. I., Molokanova, N. 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Rebolledo, Reyna-Ortiz, V. Z., Riabov, V., Riabov, Yu., Ridinger, N. O., Rikhvitsky, V., Rodriguez-Cahuantzi, M., Rogachevsky, O. V., Rogov, V. Yu., Rokita, P., Romanenko, G., Romaniuk, R., Romanova, A., Rosłon, K., Rossler, T., Calderon, E. F. Rozas, Rufanov, I. A., Rumyantsev, M. M., Rustamov, A., Rybakov, A. A., Rybczyński, M., Rybka, D., Rymshina, A. A., Rzadkiewicz, J., Sadygov, Z. Ya. -O., Samsonov, V. A., Sandul, V. S., Sattarov, R., Savenkov, A. A., Schmidt, K., Seballos, S. S., Sedykh, S. A., Selyuzhenkov, I., Semchukova, T. V., Semenov, A. Yu., Semenova, I. A., Sergeev, S. V., Sergeeva, N. A., Serochkin, E. V., Seryakov, A. Yu., Shabunov, A. V., Shanidze, R., Shcheglova, L., Shchinov, B. G., Shen, C., Shen, Y., Sherbakov, A. N., Sheremetyev, A. D., Sheremetyeva, A. I., Shindin, R. A., Shipunov, A. V., Shitenkov, M. O., Shtejer, D. K., Shukla, U., Shunko, A. A., Shutov, A. V., Shutov, V. B., Sidorin, A. O., Skwira-Chalot, I., Slepnev, I. V., Slepnev, V. M., Slepov, I. P., Solnyshkin, Yu. A., Solomin, A., Solovyeva, T., Sorin, A. S., Starecki, T., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Streletskaya, E. A., Strikhanov, M., Strizh, T. A., Strizhak, A., Sukhov, N. V., Sukhovarov, S. I., Sun, X., Surkov, N. N., Suvarieva, D., Svalov, V. L., Świderski, L., Syntfeld-Każuch, A., Szcześniak, T., Szewiński, J., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarasov, N. A., Tcholakov, V., Tejeda-Muñoz, G., Tejeda-Yeomans, M. E., Terletskiy, A. V., Teryaev, O. V., Tikhomirov, V. V., Timoshenko, A. A., Tkachev, G. P., Toneev, V. D., Topilin, N. D., Traczyk, T., Tretyakova, T., Trubnikov, A. V., Trubnikov, G. V., Tyapkin, I. A., Udovenko, S. Yu., Poblete, P. A. Ulloa, Urbaniak, M., Urumov, V., Valenzuela-Cazares, L., Valiev, F. F., Vasendina, V. A., Vasiliev, I. N., Vasilyev, A., Vechernin, V. V., Vereshchagin, S. V., Vladimirova, N. N., Vlasov, N. V., Vodopyanov, A. S., Vokhmyanina, K., Volkov, V., Volodina, O. A., Voronin, A. A., Voronyuk, V., Wang, F., Wang, J., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wieczorek, P., Wielanek, D., Włodarczyk, Z., Wójcik, K., Wu, K., Xiao, Z., Xu, Q., Yang, C., Yang, H., Yang, Q., Yarygin, G. A., Yordanova, L., Yu, T., Yuan, Z., Yurevich, V. I., Zabołotny, W., Zabrodin, E., Zaitseva, M. V., Saa, J. A. Zamora, Zamyatin, N. I., Zaporozhets, S. A., Zarochentsev, A. K., Zepeda-Fernández, C. H., Zha, W., Zhalov, M., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zherebchevsky, V. I., Zhezher, V. N., Zhong, C., Zhou, W., Zhu, X., Zinchenko, A. I., and Zinchenko, D. A.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The Nuclotron-base Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), with commissioning of the facility expected in late 2022. The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) has been designed to operate at NICA and its components are currently in production. The detector is expected to be ready for data taking with the first beams from NICA. This document provides an overview of the landscape of the investigation of the QCD phase diagram in the region of maximum baryonic density, where NICA and MPD will be able to provide significant and unique input. It also provides a detailed description of the MPD set-up, including its various subsystems as well as its support and computing infrastructures. Selected performance studies for particular physics measurements at MPD are presented and discussed in the context of existing data and theoretical expectations., Comment: 53 pages, 68 figures, submitted as a Review article to EPJA

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2022
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6. Development and science perspectives of the POLAR-2 instrument: a large scale GRB polarimeter

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De Angelis, N., Burgess, J. M., Cadoux, F., Greiner, J., Hulsman, J., Kole, M., Li, H. C., Mianowski, S., Pollo, A., Produit, N., Rybka, D., Stauffer, J., Sun, J. C., Wu, B. B., Wu, X., Zadrozny, A., and Zhang, S. N.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Despite several decades of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger spectral observations, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) remain one of the big mysteries of modern astrophysics. Polarization measurements are essential to gain a more clear and complete picture of the emission processes at work in these extremely powerful transient events. In this regard, a first generation of dedicated gamma-ray polarimeters, POLAR and GAP, were launched into space in the last decade. After 6 months of operation, the POLAR mission detected 55 GRBs, among which 14 have been analyzed in detail, reporting a low polarization degree and a hint of a temporal evolution of the polarization angle. Starting early 2024 and based on the legacy of the POLAR results, the POLAR-2 instrument will aim to provide a catalog of high quality measurements of the energy and temporal evolution of the GRB polarization thanks to its large and efficient polarimeter. Several spectrometer modules will additionally allow to perform joint spectral and polarization analyzes. The mission is foreseen to make high precision polarization measurements of about 50 GRBs every year on board of the China Space Station (CSS). The technical design of the polarimeter modules will be discussed in detail, as well as the expected scientific performances based on the first results of the developed prototype modules., Comment: Proceeding from the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021), 9 pages, 5 figures

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2021
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7. Gamma-Ray Polarization Results of the POLAR Mission and Future Prospects

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Kole, M., de Angelis, N., Burgess, J. M., Cadoux, F., Greiner, J., Hulsman, J., Li, H. C., Mianowski, S., Pollo, A., Produit, N., Rybka, D., Stauffer, J., Sun, J. C., Wu, B. B., Wu, X., Zadrozny, A., and Zhang, S. N.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

Despite over 50 years of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) observations many open questions remain about their nature and the environments in which the emission takes place. Polarization measurements of the GRB prompt emission have long been theorized to be able to answer most of these questions. The POLAR detector was a dedicated GRB polarimeter developed by a Swiss, Chinese and Polish collaboration. The instrument was launched, together with the second Chinese Space Lab, the Tiangong-2, in September 2016 after which it took 6 months of scientific data. During this period POLAR detected 55 GRBs as well as several pulsars. From the analysis of the GRB polarization catalog we see that the prompt emission is lowly polarized or fully unpolarized. There is, however, the caveat that within single pulses there are strong hints of an evolving polarization angle which washes out the polarization degree in the time integrated analysis. Building on the success of the POLAR mission, the POLAR-2 instrument is currently under development. POLAR-2 is a Swiss, Chinese, Polish and German collaboration and was recently approved for launch in 2024. Thanks to its large sensitivity POLAR-2 will produce polarization measurements of at least 50 GRBs per year with a precision equal or higher than the best results published by POLAR. POLAR-2 thereby aims to make the prompt polarization a standard observable and produce catalogs of the gamma-ray polarization of GRBs. Here we will present an overview of the POLAR mission and all its scientific measurement results. Additionally, we will present an overview of the future POLAR-2 mission, and how it will answer some of the questions raised by the POLAR results., Comment: Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)

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2021
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8. POLAR-2: a large scale gamma-ray polarimeter for GRBs

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Hulsman, J., de Angelis, N., Burgess, J. M., Cadoux, F., Greinerd, J., Kole, M., Li, H., Mianowski, S., Pollo, A., Produit, N., Rybka, D., Stauffer, J., Wu, X., Zadrozny, A., Zhang, S. N., Sun, J., and Wu, B.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The prompt emission of GRBs has been investigated for more than 50 years but remains poorly understood. Commonly, spectral and temporal profiles of {\gamma}-ray emission are analysed. However, they are insufficient for a complete picture on GRB-related physics. The addition of polarization measurements provides invaluable information towards the understanding of these astrophysical sources. In recent years, dedicated polarimeters, such as POLAR and GAP, were built. The former of which observed low levels of polarization as well as a temporal evolution of the polarization angle. It was understood that a larger sample of GRB polarization measurements and time resolved studies are necessary to constrain theoretical models. The POLAR-2 mission aims to address this by increasing the effective area by an order of magnitude compared to POLAR. POLAR-2 is manifested for launch on board the China Space Station in 2024 and will operate for at least 2 years. Insight from POLAR will aid in the improvement of the overall POLAR-2 design. Major improvements (compared to POLAR) will include the replacement of multi-anode PMTs (MAPMTs) with SiPMs, increase in sensitive volume and further technological upgrades. POLAR-2 is projected to measure about 50 GRBs per year with equal or better quality compared to the best seen by POLAR. The instrument design, preliminary results and anticipated scientific potential of this mission will be discussed., Comment: 16 pages

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2021
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9. SiPM proton irradiation for application in cosmic space

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Mianowski, S., Borowicz, D. M., Brylew, K., Dziedzic, A., Grodzicka-Kobylka, M., Korgul, A., Krakowiak, M., Mianowska, Z., Molokanov, A. G., Moszynski, M., Mytsin, G. V., Rybka, D., Shipulin, K., and Szczesniak, T.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

This paper presents the results of the proton irradiation of silicon photomulipliers (SiPMs) by mono-energetic 170 MeV protons with fluence up to 4.6$\times$10$^{9}$ particles/cm$^2$. In our work, three types of silicon photodetectors from Hamamatsu with areas 3$\times$3 mm$^2$ and different subpixel sizes of 25$\times$25 $\mu$m$^2$, 50$\times$50 $\mu$m$^2$, and 75$\times$75 $\mu$m$^2$ were used. The changes in the SiPM dark count rate (DCR) spectrum before and after irradiation in temperatures in the range of 20 $^\circ$C to -65 $^\circ$C are presented. The influence of the DCR changes on the energy resolution of the 662 keV gamma line from the $^{137}$Cs for a non-irradiated GAGG:Ce (1$\%$) scintillator is investigated. The time period of usability of the SiPM detector irradiated by protons in cosmic space was estimated.

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2020
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11. Design and construction of the POLAR detector

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Produit, N., Bao, T. W., Batsch, T., Bernasconi, T., Britvich, I., Cadoux, F., Cernuda, I., Chai, J. Y., Dong, Y. W., Gauvin, N., Hajdas, W., Kole, M., Kong, M. N., Kramert, R., Li, L., Liu, J. T., Liu, X., Marcinkowski, R., Orsi, S., Pohl, M., Rapin, D., Rybka, D., Rutczynska, A., Shi, H. L., Socha, P., Sun, J. C., Song, L. M., Szabelski, J., Traseira, I., Xiao, H. L., Wang, R. J., Wen, X., Wu, B. B., Zhang, L., Zhang, L. Y., Zhang, S. N., Zhang, Y. J., and Zwolinska, A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The POLAR detector is a space based Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) polarimeter with a wide field of view, which covers almost half the sky. The instrument uses Compton scattering of gamma rays on a plastic scintillator hodoscope to measure the polarization of the incoming photons. The instrument has been successfully launched on board of the Chinese space laboratory Tiangong~2 on September 15, 2016. The construction of the instrument components is described in this article. Details are provided on problems encountered during the construction phase and their solutions. Initial performance of the instrument in orbit is as expected from ground tests and Monte Carlo simulation.

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2017
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12. Instrument Performance and Simulation Verification of the POLAR Detector

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Kole, M., Li, Z. H., Produit, N., Tymieniecka, T., Zhang, J., Zwolinska, A., Bao, T. W., Bernasconi, T., Cadoux, F., Feng, M. Z., Gauvin, N., Hajdas, W., Kong, S. W., Li, H. C., Li, L., Liu, X., Marcinkowski, R., Orsi, S., Pohl, M., Rybka, D., Sun, J. C., Song, L. M., Szabelski, J., Wang, R. J., Wang, Y. H., Wen, X., Wu, B. B., Wu, X., Xiao, H. L., Zhang, L., Zhang, L. Y., Zhang, S. N., Zhang, X. F., Zhang, Y. J., and Zhao, Y.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

POLAR is a new satellite-born detector aiming to measure the polarization of an unprecedented number of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the 50-500 keV energy range. The instrument, launched on-board the Tiangong-2 Chinese Space lab on the 15th of September 2016, is designed to measure the polarization of the hard X-ray flux by measuring the distribution of the azimuthal scattering angles of the incoming photons. A detailed understanding of the polarimeter and specifically of the systematic effects induced by the instrument's non-uniformity are required for this purpose. In order to study the instrument's response to polarization, POLAR underwent a beam test at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France. In this paper both the beam test and the instrument performance will be described. This is followed by an overview of the Monte Carlo simulation tools developed for the instrument. Finally a comparison of the measured and simulated instrument performance will be provided and the instrument response to polarization will be presented., Comment: Preprint Accepted for Publication in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A

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2017
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13. Calibration of the Space-borne Compton Polarimeter POLAR flight model with 100% polarized X-ray beams

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Xiao, H. L., Hajdas, W., Socha, P., Marcinkowski, R., Wu, B. B., Bao, T. W., Chai, J. Y., Dong, Y. W., Kong, M. N., Li, L., Li, Z. H., Liu, J. T., Shi, H. L., Song, L. M., Sun, J. C., Wang, R. J., Wang, Y. H., Wen, X., Xiong, S. L., Zhang, J., Zhang, L. Y., Zhang, S. N., Zhang, X. F., Zhang, Y. J., Cadoux, F., Pohl, M., Wu, X., Batsch, T., Rybka, D., Rutczynska, A., Szabelski, J., Zwolinska, A., Gauvin, N., Produit, N., and Bernasconi, T.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

POLAR is space-borne detector designed for a precise measurement of gamma-ray polarization of the prompt emissions of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the energy range 50 keV - 500 keV. POLAR is a compact Compton polarimeter consisting of 40$\times$ 40 plastic scintillator bars read out by 25 multi-anode PMTs. In May 2015, we performed a series of tests of the POLAR flight model with 100\% polarized x-rays beams at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility beam-line ID11 aming to study thresholds, crosstalk between channels and responses of POLAR flight model to polarized X-ray beams. In this paper we present the data analysis method and some analysis results. According the results, POLAR FM has good polarimetric capabilities., Comment: The paper was withdrawn by authors because the work has not yet finshed

Published
2017

14. Gain factor and parameter settings optimization of the new gamma-ray burst polarimeter POLAR

Author

Zhang, X. F., Hajdas, W., Xiao, H. L., Wen, X., Wu, B. B., Bao, T. W., Batsch, T., Bernasconi, T., Cadoux, F., Cernuda, I., Chai, J. Y., Dong, Y. W., Gauvin, N., He, J. J., Kole, M., Kong, M. N., Lechanoine-Leluc, C., Li, L., Li, Z. H., Liu, J. T., Liu, X., Marcinkowski, R., Orsi, S., Pohl, M., Rapin, D., Rybka, D., Shi, H. L., Song, L. M., Sun, J. C., Szabelski, J., Wang, R. J., Wang, Y. H., Wu, X., Xiong, S. L., Xu, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, L. Y., Zhang, P., Zhang, S. N., Zhang, Y. J., and Zwolinska, A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

As a space-borne detector POLAR is designed to conduct hard X-ray polarization measurements of gamma-ray bursts on the statistically significant sample of events and with an unprecedented accuracy. During its development phase a number of tests, calibrations runs and verification measurements were carried out in order to validate instrument functionality and optimize operational parameters. In this article we present results on gain optimization togeter with verification data obtained in the course of broad laboratory and environmental tests. In particular we focus on exposures to the $^{137}$Cs radioactive source and determination of the gain dependence on the high voltage for all 1600 detection channels of the polarimeter. Performance of the instrument is described in detail with respect to the dynamic range, energy resolution and temperature dependence. Gain optimization algorithms and response non-uniformity studies are also broadly discussed. Results presented below constitute important parts for development of the POLAR calibration and operation database., Comment: There still some disagreement about one of the conclusions presented in the paper among all the authors

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2017

15. POLAR: Final Calibration and In-Flight Performance of a Dedicated GRB Polarimeter

Author

Kole, M., Bao, T. W., Batsch, T., Bernasconi, T., Cadoux, F., Chai, J. Y., Dong, Y. W., Gauvin, N., Hajdas, W., He, J. J., Kong, M. N., Kong, S. W., Lechanoine-Leluc, C., Li, L., Li, Z. H., Liu, J. T., Liu, X., Marcinkowski, R., Orsi, S., Pohl, M., Produit, N., Rapin, D., Rutczynska, A., Rybka, D., Shi, H. L., Song, L. M., Sun, J. C., Szabelski, J., Wang, R. J., Wang, Y. J., Wen, X., Wu, B. B., Wu, X., Xiao, H. L., Xiong, S. L., Xu, H. H., Xu, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, L. Y., Zhang, S. N., Zhang, X. F., Zhang, Y. J., and Zwolinska, A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

Gamma-ray polarimetry is a new powerful tool to study the processes responsible for the emission from astrophysical sources and the environments in which this emission takes place. Few successful polarimetric measurements have however been performed thus far in the gamma-ray energy band due to the difficulties involved. POLAR is a dedicated polarimeter designed to perform high precision measurements of the polarization of the emission from gamma-ray burst in the 50-500 keV energy range. This new polarimeter is expected to detect approximately 50 gamma-ray bursts per year while performing high precision polarization measurements on approximately 10 bursts per year. The instrument was launched into lower earth orbit as part of the second Chinese space lab, the Tiangong-2, on September 15th 2016 and has been taking data successfully since being switched on one week after. The instrument uses a segmented scintillator array consisting of 1600 plastic scintillator bars, read out by 25 flat-panel multi-anode photomultipliers, to measure the Compton scattering angles of incoming photons. The small segmentation and relatively large uniform effective area allow the instrument to measure the polarization of a large number of transient events, such as gamma-ray bursts, with an unprecedented precision during its two year life-time. The final flight model underwent detailed calibration prior to launch as well as intensive space qualification tests, a summary of which will be presented in this paper. The instrument design will be discussed first followed by an overview of the on-ground tests, finally the in-orbit behavior as measured during the first weeks of the mission will be presented.

Published
2016

16. Calibration of Gamma-ray Burst Polarimeter POLAR

Author

Xiao, H. L., Hajdas, W., Bao, T. W., Batsch, T., Bernasconi, T., Cernuda, I., Chai, J. Y., Dong, Y. W., Gauvin, N., Kole, M., Kong, M. N., Kong, S. W., Li, L., Liu, J. T., Liu, X., Marcinkowski, R., Orsi, S., Pohl, M., Produit, N., Rapin, D., Rutczynska, A., Rybka, D., Shi, H. L., Song, L. M., Sun, J. C., Szabelski, J., Wu, B. B., Wang, R. J., Wen, X., Xu, H. H., Zhang, L., Zhang, L. Y., Zhang, S. N., Zhang, X. F., Zhang, Y. J., and Zwolinska, A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the strongest explosions in the universe which might be associated with creation of black holes. Magnetic field structure and burst dynamics may influence polarization of the emitted gamma-rays. Precise polarization detection can be an ultimate tool to unveil the true GRB mechanism. POLAR is a space-borne Compton scattering detector for precise measurements of the GRB polarization. It consists of a 40$\times$40 array of plastic scintillator bars read out by 25 multi-anode PMTs (MaPMTs). It is scheduled to be launched into space in 2016 onboard of the Chinese space laboratory TG2. We present a dedicated methodology for POLAR calibration and some calibration results based on the combined use of the laboratory radioactive sources and polarized X-ray beams from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. They include calibration of the energy response, computation of the energy conversion factor vs. high voltage as well as determination of the threshold values, crosstalk contributions and polarization modulation factors., Comment: 2015 IEEE NSS conference proceedings

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2015
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17. A method to localize gamma-ray bursts using POLAR

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Suarez-Garcia, E., Haas, D., Hajdas, W., Lamanna, G., Lechanoine-Leluc, C., Marcinkowski, R., Mtchedlishvili, A., Orsi, S., Pohl, M., Produit, N., Rapin, D., Rybka, D., and Vialle, J. -P.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The hard X-ray polarimeter POLAR aims to measure the linear polarization of the 50-500 keV photons arriving from the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The position in the sky of the detected GRBs is needed to determine their level of polarization. We present here a method by which, despite of the polarimeter incapability of taking images, GRBs can be roughly localized using POLAR alone. For this purpose scalers are attached to the output of the 25 multi-anode photomultipliers (MAPMs) that collect the light from the POLAR scintillator target. Each scaler measures how many GRB photons produce at least one energy deposition above 50 keV in the corresponding MAPM. Simulations show that the relative outputs of the 25 scalers depend on the GRB position. A database of very strong GRBs simulated at 10201 positions has been produced. When a GRB is detected, its location is calculated searching the minimum of the chi2 obtained in the comparison between the measured scaler pattern and the database. This GRB localization technique brings enough accuracy so that the error transmitted to the 100% modulation factor is kept below 10% for GRBs with fluence Ftot \geq 10^(-5) erg cm^(-2) . The POLAR localization capability will be useful for those cases where no other instruments are simultaneously observing the same field of view., Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures

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2010
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18. Prompt optical observations of GRBs with 'Pi of the Sky' system

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Sokolowski, M., Cwiok, M., Dominik, W., Juchniewicz, J., Kasprowicz, G., Majcher, A., Majczyna, A., Malek, K., Mankiewicz, L., Nawrocki, K., Pietrzak, R., Piotrowski, L. W., Rybka, D., Uzycki, J., Wawrzaszek, R., Wrochna, G., Zaremba, M., and Zarnecki, A. F.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The "Pi of the Sky" prototype apparatus observed prompt optical emission from extremely bright GRB080319B since the very beginning of the gamma emission. The burst occurred at redshift z=0.937 and set the record of optical luminosity reaching 5.3 mag. The position of the burst was observed before, during and after the explosion by several telescopes and unprecedented coverage of optical light curve has been achieved. The combination of these unique optical data with simultaneous gamma-ray observations provides a powerful diagnostic tool for the physics of the GRB explosion within seconds of its start. The "Pi of the Sky" prototype, working since 2004 in Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, consists of 2 cameras observing same 20x20 deg^2 fields in the sky with time resolution of 10 seconds. The prototype reacts to GCN alerts, but it has also its own algorithm for identification of optical flashes. The final system covering field of view of Swift or Fermi satellite will consist of 2 arrays of 16 cameras installed in a distance of about 100 km. The system is currently under construction. It will be a powerful tool for early optical observations of GRBs, allowing for optical observation of GRBs before, during and after the gamma emission. With the on-line data analysis in real time, it will identify short optical flashes autonomously and will be able to distribute this information among the community. In this contribution the general idea of the final version of the experiment and the most interesting results from the prototype are presented., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Proc. of the 6th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium, eds. C. A. Meegan, N. Gehrels, and C. Kouveliotou (AIP Conf. Proc., New York)

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2009
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19. Effect of the geometrical parameters of an X-pinch on the characteristics of the soft x-ray source.

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Artyomov, A. P., Oreshkin, V. I., Rousskikh, A. G., Rybka, D. V., Fedyunin, A. V., Chaikovsky, S. A., and Ratakhin, N. A.

Subjects
PULSE generators, X-rays, ANGLES, ELECTRODES, NECK, SOFT X rays
Abstract

It was studied how the geometrical parameters of an X-pinch (the angle of inclination of the wires to the X-pinch vertical axis and the length of the electrode gap) affected the number of hot spots, formed in the region of the X-pinch neck, and the x-ray yield. The experiment was performed on the XPG-3 compact current pulse generator (180 kA, 180 ns). The highest values of the x-ray energy per pulse were observed when the angle of inclination of the wires to the X-pinch load vertical axis (z-axis) was 40°–45° at an electrode gap length of 6–7 mm. In these cases, the energy of the x-ray pulse in the spectral range hν = 1.5–5 keV was 1.1 ± 0.4 J. The angle of inclination of the X-pinch wires to the z-axis equal to 45° was a threshold above which the conditions for the formation of a hot spot changed significantly. It was observed that, regardless of the wire inclination angle, two hot spots formed with a high degree of probability in the neck region at the final stage of implosion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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22. Optimization of the gain factors and parameter settings for the new gamma-ray burst polarimeter, POLAR

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Zhang, X.F., Hajdas, W., Xiao, H.L., Wen, X., Wu, B.B., Bao, T.W., Batsch, T., Bernasconi, T., Cadoux, F., Cernuda, I., Chai, J.Y., Dong, Y.W., Gauvin, N., He, J.J., Kole, M., Kong, M.N., Lechanoine-Leluc, C., Li, L., Li, Z.H., Liu, J.T., Liu, X., Marcinkowski, R., Orsi, S., Rapin, D., Rybka, D., Shi, H.L., Song, L.M., Sun, J.C., Szabelski, J., Wang, R.J., Wang, Y.H., Wu, X., Xiong, S.L., Xu, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, L.Y., Zhang, P., Zhang, S.N., Zhang, Y.J., and Zwolinska, A.

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2018
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23. Evidence for an excess of charged over neutral $K$ meson production in high-energy collisions of atomic nuclei

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Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Brandin, A., Brylinski, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Cirkovic, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gazdzicki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskret, M., Nishimori, S., Olivier, A., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzovic, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Rybka, D., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Swiderski, Ł., Szewinski, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vitiuk, O., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Witek, K., Wójcik, K., Wyszynski, O., Zaitsev, A., Zherebtsova, E., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., Zwaska, R., Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Adhikary, H., Adrich, P., Allison, K. K., Amin, N., Andronov, E. V., Arsene, I. -C., Bajda, M., Balkova, Y., Battaglia, D., Bazgir, A., Bhosale, S., Bielewicz, M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bondar, Y., Brandin, A., Brylinski, W., Brzychczyk, J., Buryakov, M., Camino, A. F., Cirkovic, M., Csanád, M., Cybowska, J., Czopowicz, T., Dalmazzone, C., Davis, N., Dmitriev, A., von Doetinchem, P., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Feofilov, G. A., Fields, L., Fodor, Z., Friend, M., Gazdzicki, M., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Guber, F., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, S., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Kargin, N., Karpushkin, N., Kashirin, E., Kiełbowicz, M., Kireyeu, V. A., Kolesnikov, R., Kolev, D., Koshio, Y., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozłowski, B., Krasnoperov, A., Kucewicz, W., Kuchowicz, M., Kuich, M., Kurepin, A., László, A., Lewicki, M., Lykasov, G., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Makhnev, A., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Marcinek, A., Marino, A. D., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Merzlaya, A., Mik, Ł., Morozov, S., Nagai, Y., Nakadaira, T., Naskret, M., Nishimori, S., Olivier, A., Ozvenchuk, V., Panova, O., Paolone, V., Petukhov, O., Pidhurskyi, I., Płaneta, R., Podlaski, P., Popov, B. A., Pórfy, B., Prokhorova, D. S., Pszczel, D., Puławski, S., Puzovic, J., Renfordt, R., Ren, L., Ortiz, V. Z. Reyna, Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rozpłochowski, Ł., Rumberger, B. T., Rumyantsev, M., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Rybka, D., Sakashita, K., Schmidt, K., Seryakov, A. Yu., Seyboth, P., Shah, U. A., Shiraishi, Y., Shukla, A., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strikhanov, M., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Swiderski, Ł., Szewinski, J., Szukiewicz, R., Taranenko, A., Tefelska, A., Tefelski, D., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Tveter, T. S., Unger, M., Urbaniak, M., Valiev, F. F., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vitiuk, O., Volkov, V., Wickremasinghe, A., Witek, K., Wójcik, K., Wyszynski, O., Zaitsev, A., Zherebtsova, E., Zimmerman, E. D., Zviagina, A., and Zwaska, R.

Abstract

Collisions of atomic nuclei at relativistic velocities produce new particles, predominantly mesons containing one valence quark and one valence anti-quark. These particles are produced in strong interactions, which preserve an approximate symmetry between up ($u$) and down ($d$) quarks. In the case of $K$ meson production, if this symmetry were exact, it would result in equal numbers of charged ($K^+$ and $K^-$) and neutral ($K^0$ and $\overline K^0$) mesons in the final state. In this Letter, we report a measurement of the relative abundance of charged over neutral $K$ meson production in collisions of argon and scandium nuclei at a center-of-mass energy of 11.9 GeV per nucleon pair. We find that production of $\mathit{K^+}$ and $\mathit{K^-}$ mesons at mid-rapidity is $(18.4\pm 6.1)\%$ higher than that of the neutral $K$ mesons. The origin of this unexpected excess remains to be elucidated., Comment: The paper includes updates based on the final results of $K^+$ and $K^-$ yields published in Eur. Phys. J.C 84 (2024) 4, 416

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2023

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