EPJ Web of Conferences 138, 01020 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713801020

Investigation of the compressed baryonic matter at the GSI accelerator complex^*

¹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russian Federation
² Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe Universitüt Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
³ Institute of Applied Physics of ASM, Kishinev, Moldova
⁴ National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine
⁵ State University of St.Petersburg„ St.Petersburg, Russian Federation
⁶ Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
⁷ Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
⁸ State Enterprise PLANAR, Minsk, Belarus

^** e-mail: vladygin@jinr.ru

Published online: 27 March 2017

Abstract

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR will play a unique role in the exploration of the QCD phase diagram in the region of high net-baryon densities, because it is designed to run at unprecedented interaction rates. High-rate operation is the key prerequisite for high-precision measurements of multi-differential observables and of rare diagnostic probes which are sensitive to the dense phase of the nuclear fireball. The goal of the CBM experiment at SIS100 (√s_NN = 2-4.9 GeV) is to discover fundamental properties of QCD matter, namely, the equation-of-state at high density as it is expected to occur in the core of neutron stars, effects of chiral symmetry, and the phase structure at large baryon-chemical potentials (μ_B ≥ 500 MeV).

We are focusing here on the contribution of JINR to the CBM experiment: design of the superconducting dipole magnet; manufacture of the straw and micro-strip silicon detectors, participation in the data taking and analysis algorithms and physics program.