Review of opportunities at the HESR-Collider with PANDA at FAIR

TL;DR

This paper discusses the scientific potential of the PANDA detector at the HESR-C collider mode at FAIR, highlighting opportunities to study QCD phenomena, heavy quark states, and gluon plasma formation with high luminosity and energy range.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of the new scientific opportunities enabled by the HESR-C collider mode for the PANDA experiment at FAIR.

Findings

Potential to explore heavy quark states production.

Ability to study gluon plasma formation.

Probing short-range nuclear correlations.

Abstract

Exciting new scientific opportunities are presented for the PANDA detector at the High Energy Storage Ring in the redefined $\overline{\text{p}} \text{p}(A)$ collider mode, HESR-C, at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Europe. The high luminosity, $L \sim 10^{31}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, and a wide range of intermediate and high energies, $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}$ up to 30 GeV for $\overline{\text{p}} \text{p}(A)$ collisions will allow to explore a wide range of exciting topics in QCD, including the study of the production of excited open charm and bottom states, nuclear bound states containing heavy (anti)quarks, the interplay of hard and soft physics in the dilepton production, probing short-range correlations in nuclei, and the exploration of the early, complete $\overline{\text{p}}$-p-annihilation phase, where an intially pure Yang-Mills gluon plasma is formed.