Feasibility Studies for the Panda Experiment at Fair

TL;DR

This paper presents feasibility studies and simulation results for the PANDA detector at FAIR, focusing on detector performance validation, optimization, and analysis strategies for anti-proton annihilation experiments.

Contribution

It provides large-scale simulation studies validating detector components and analysis methods for the PANDA experiment at FAIR, using the PandaROOT framework.

Findings

Validation of detector component performance through simulations

Optimization strategies for detector design and analysis methods

Feasibility of analysis and calibration techniques for PANDA

Abstract

PANDA, the detector to study AntiProton ANnihilations at DArmstadt, will be installed at the future international Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. The PANDA physics program is oriented towards the studies of the strong interaction and hadron structure performed with the highest quality beam of anti-protons [1]. In the preparation for PANDA experiments, large-scale simulation studies are being performed to validate the performance of all individual detector components and to advice on detector optimisation. The feasibility of the analysis strategies together with the calibration methods are being studied. Simulations were carried out using the framework called PandaROOT [2], based on ROOT and the Virtual Monte Carlo concept [3]. [1] http://www-panda.gsi.de; Technical Progress Report (2005); Physics Performance Report (2009), arXiv:0903.3905v1. [2] [PANDA Collaboration] S. Spataro, J. Phys. 119, 032035 (2008). [3] http://root.cern.ch