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Open AccessProduction of π+ and K+ mesons in argon-nucleus interactions at 3.2 A GeV
First physics results of the BM@N experiment at the Nuclotron/NICA complex are presented on π+ and K+ meson production in interactions of an argon beam with fixed targets of C, Al, Cu, Sn and Pb at 3.2 A GeV. Tra...
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Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA
The Nuclotron-based 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 (...
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Open AccessThe SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS Beam Dump Facility
The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for light, feebly interacting particl...
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Development of Data Concentration Method and Its Implementation in a Radiation-Tolerant CMOS Application Specific Integrated Circuit
The results of the concentration method development for the data coming from the detector integrated circuits, intended for the experimental facilities MPD and BM@N, are presented. Charged particle detectors a...
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Open AccessSensitivity of the SHiP experiment to dark photons decaying to a pair of charged particles
Dark photons are hypothetical massive vector particles that could mix with ordinary photons. The simplest theoretical model is fully characterised by only two parameters: the mass of the dark photon m ...
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Open AccessSensitivity of the SHiP experiment to light dark matter
Dark matter is a well-established theoretical addition to the Standard Model supported by many observations in modern astrophysics and cosmology. In this context, the existence of weakly interacting massive pa...
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Open AccessMeasurement of the muon flux from 400 GeV/c protons interacting in a thick molybdenum/tungsten target
The SHiP experiment is proposed to search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 GeV/c proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. About \(10^{11}\)1011 muons per spill ...
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Energy Spectra of Cosmic Ray Protons and Helium Nuclei in the NUCLEON Experiment
The main aims of the NUCLEON satellite experiment are direct measurement of the energy spectra of cosmic ray protons and nuclei in the 2–500 TeV range of energies by two different methods (an ionization calori...
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Open AccessSensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons
Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of neutrino masses, generate the observed...
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New Universal Cosmic-Ray Knee near a Magnetic Rigidity of 10 TV with the NUCLEON Space Observatory
Data from the NUCLEON space observatory give a strong indication of the existence of a new universal cosmic ray “knee”, which is observed in all groups of nuclei, including heavy nuclei, near a magnetic rigidi...
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Challenges in QCD matter physics --The scientific programme of the Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at FAIR
Substantial experimental and theoretical efforts worldwide are devoted to explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. At LHC and top RHIC energies, QCD matter is studied at very high temperatures...
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The high-acceptance dielectron spectrometer HADES
HADES is a versatile magnetic spectrometer aimed at studying dielectron production in pion, proton and heavy-ion-induced collisions. Its main features include a ring imaging gas Cherenkov detector for electron...
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MUST2: A new generation array for direct reaction studies
We have developed a new telescope array, dedicated to the study of direct reactions of exotic nuclei on light targets in inverse kinematics. This device, called MUST2, is briefly described, and the results of ...
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MUST2: A new generation array for direct reaction studies
We have developed a new telescope array, dedicated to the study of direct reactions of exotic nuclei on light targets in inverse kinematics. This device, called MUST2, is briefly described, and the results of ...
