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| Title | Formation of Centauro in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC and their detection with the CASTOR detector of CMS |
| Author(s) | Angelis, A L S ; Aslanoglou, X ; Bartke, Jerzy ; Chileev, K ; Gladysz-Dziadus, E ; Golubeva, M B ; Guber, F F ; Karavitcheva, T L ; Kharlov, Yu V ; Kurepin, A B ; Mavromanolakis, G ; Panagiotou, A D ; Sadovsky, S A ; Tiflov, V V ; Wlodarczyk, Z |
| Affiliation | (Athens Univ.) |
| Publication | 2003 |
| In: | Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 122 (2003) 205-8 |
| In: | 12th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 15 - 20 Jul 2002, pp.205-8 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0920-5632(03)02007-3 |
| Subject category | Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LHC ; CMS |
| 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. (17 refs). |