Detector hardware

PANDA (antiProton ANnihilation in DArmstadt) is the central experiment to fully exploit the physics research potential of antiproton beams at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR), currently under construction at GSI. Phase-space cooled high intensity antiproton beams up to 15 GeV/c will be provided by the High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) at FAIR to interact with PANDA internal proton or nuclear targets enabling a broad range of exciting studies in Particle and Nuclear Physics. The PANDA detector features two spectrometers, the Target Spectrometer with a superconducting solenoid magnet of 2 T around the interaction region with hermetic coverage and the Forward Spectrometer with a 2 Tm dipole magnet for coverage of the forward boosted particles. Several modern particle detector systems are employed in PANDA to provide excellent charged particle tracking, particle identification, calorimetry and muon detection, over the full momentum range in both spectrometers throughout the lifetime of the experiment. Focusing on the various PANDA detector systems we present an overview of recent developments, the detector construction progress and conclude with an outline for a phased deployment of PANDA at FAIR.

The PANDA experiment (antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt) is one of the four key experiments to be operated at FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), which is currently under construction near Darmstadt/Germany. This fixed target experiment will address a wide range of open questions in the field of hadron physics.
The detector consists of at target as well as a forward spectrometer to fully exploit the forward boosted collisions of antiprotons with dense hydrogen or nuclear targets.
Phase-space cooled antiprotons with momenta in the range of 1.5 GeV/c to 15 GeV/c provided by the High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) allow for high precision line-shape scans.
The ability to perform exclusive reconstruction of arbitrary final states enables a physics program including topics such as spectroscopy in the charmonium and open-charm region, proton structure, and hyperon and hypernuclear physics.
The talk will give an overview of the PANDA experiment and highlight the most important aspects of the physics program.

This document presents the technical layout and the cost assessment for the infrastructure of the PANDA experiment, comprising the following major items:
- Supports: Mechanical structures to support the experimental setup, fixed and removable platforms to house equipment and to assemble the experiment, including staircases, ladders,fences, racks and related tools.
- Supplies: Distribution systems for electrical power, grounding, fluids and gases.
Based on this, the current integration planning and the installation procedure are described.

UPDATE July 3: Updated version v1.0 submitted to external referees.
UPDATE August 28: Updated version v2.0 for inspection by the PANDA CB before submission to ECE.
UPDATE September 14: Version v3.0 for submission to FAIR ECE. Bibliographies completed.

PANDA Annual Report 2019

PANDA Collaboration Meeting 20/1 Minutes