A facility for pion-induced nuclear reaction studies with HADES

J. Adamczewski-Musch; O. Arnold; C. Behnke; A. Belounnas; A. Belyaev; J. C. Berger-Chen; J. Biernat; A. Blanco; C. Blume; M. Böhmer; P. Bordalo; S. Chernenko; C. Chlad; C. Deveaux; J. Dreyer; A. Dybczak; E. Epple; L. Fabbietti; O. Fateev; P. Filip; P. Fonte; C. Franco; J. Friese; I. Fröhlich; T. Galatyuk; J. A. Garzón; R. Gernhäuser; M. Golubeva; F. Guber; M. Gumberidze; S. Harabasz; T. Heinz; T. Hennino; S. Hlavac; C. Höhne; R. Holzmann; A. Ierusalimov; A. Ivashkin; B. Kämpfer; T. Karavicheva; B. Kardan; I. Koenig; W. Koenig; B. W. Kolb; G. Korcyl; G. Kornakov; R. Kotte; A. Kugler; T. Kunz; A. Kurepin; A. Kurilkin; P. Kurilkin; V. Ladygin; R. Lalik; K. Lapidus; A. Lebedev; L. Lopes; M. Lorenz; T. Mahmoud; L. Maier; A. Mangiarotti; J. Markert; S. Maurus; V. Metag; J. Michel; D. M. Mihaylov; S. Morozov; C. Müntz; R. Münzer; L. Naumann; K. N. Nowakowski; M. Palka; V. Pechenov; O. Pechenova; O. Petukhov; J. Pietraszko; W. Przygoda; S. Ramos; B. Ramstein; A. Reshetin; P. Rodriguez-Ramos; P. Rosier; A. Rost; A. Sadovsky; P. Salabura; T. Scheib; C. J. Schmidt; K. Schmidt-Sommerfeld; H. Schuldes; E. Schwab; A. Scordo; F. Scozzi; F. Seck; P. Sellheim; J. Siebenson; L. Silva; Yu. G. Sobolev; S. Spataro; H. Ströbele; J. Stroth; P. Strzempek; C. Sturm; O. Svoboda; P. Tlusty; M. Traxler; H. Tsertos; E. Usenko; V. Wagner; C. Wendisch; M. G. Wiebusch; J. Wirth; Y. Zanevsky; P. Zumbruch

doi:10.1140/epja/i2017-12365-7

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Hadrons and Nuclei

Eur. Phys. J. A (2017) 53: 188
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12365-7

Tools for Experiment and Theory - Experimental Physics

A facility for pion-induced nuclear reaction studies with HADES

HADES Collaboration
J. Adamczewski-Musch⁴, O. Arnold⁹^,10, C. Behnke⁸, A. Belounnas¹⁵, A. Belyaev⁷, J. C. Berger-Chen⁹^,10, J. Biernat³, A. Blanco², C. Blume⁸, M. Böhmer¹⁰, P. Bordalo², S. Chernenko⁷, C. Chlad¹⁶, C. Deveaux¹¹, J. Dreyer⁶, A. Dybczak³, E. Epple⁹^,10, L. Fabbietti⁹^,10, O. Fateev⁷, P. Filip¹, P. Fonte², C. Franco², J. Friese¹⁰^*, I. Fröhlich⁸, T. Galatyuk⁴^,5, J. A. Garzón¹⁷, R. Gernhäuser¹⁰, M. Golubeva¹², F. Guber¹², M. Gumberidze⁵, S. Harabasz³^,5, T. Heinz⁴, T. Hennino¹⁵, S. Hlavac¹, C. Höhne¹¹, R. Holzmann⁴, A. Ierusalimov⁷, A. Ivashkin¹², B. Kämpfer⁶, T. Karavicheva¹², B. Kardan⁸, I. Koenig⁴, W. Koenig⁴, B. W. Kolb⁴, G. Korcyl³, G. Kornakov⁵, R. Kotte⁶, A. Kugler¹⁶, T. Kunz¹⁰, A. Kurepin¹², A. Kurilkin⁷, P. Kurilkin⁷, V. Ladygin⁷, R. Lalik⁹^,10, K. Lapidus⁹^,10, A. Lebedev¹³, L. Lopes², M. Lorenz⁸, T. Mahmoud¹¹, L. Maier¹⁰, A. Mangiarotti², J. Markert⁸, S. Maurus¹⁰, V. Metag¹¹, J. Michel⁸, D. M. Mihaylov⁹^,10, S. Morozov¹², C. Müntz⁸, R. Münzer⁹^,10, L. Naumann⁶, K. N. Nowakowski³, M. Palka³, V. Pechenov⁴, O. Pechenova⁸, O. Petukhov¹², J. Pietraszko⁴, W. Przygoda³, S. Ramos², B. Ramstein¹⁵, A. Reshetin¹², P. Rodriguez-Ramos¹⁶, P. Rosier¹⁵, A. Rost⁵, A. Sadovsky¹², P. Salabura³, T. Scheib⁸, C. J. Schmidt⁴, K. Schmidt-Sommerfeld¹⁰, H. Schuldes⁸, E. Schwab⁴, A. Scordo¹⁸, F. Scozzi⁵^,15, F. Seck⁵, P. Sellheim⁸, J. Siebenson¹⁰, L. Silva², Yu. G. Sobolev¹⁶, S. Spataro¹⁹, H. Ströbele⁸, J. Stroth⁴^,8, P. Strzempek³, C. Sturm⁴, O. Svoboda¹⁶, P. Tlusty¹⁶, M. Traxler⁴, H. Tsertos¹⁴, E. Usenko¹², V. Wagner¹⁶, C. Wendisch⁴, M. G. Wiebusch⁸, J. Wirth⁹^,10, Y. Zanevsky⁷ and P. Zumbruch⁴

¹ Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84228, Bratislava, Slovakia
² Laboratório de Instrumentação, Física Experimental de Partículas, 3004-516, Coimbra, Portugal
³ Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University of Cracow, 30-059, Kraków, Poland
⁴ GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany
⁵ Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany
⁶ Institut für Strahlenphysik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01314, Dresden, Germany
⁷ Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia
⁸ Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe-Universität, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany
⁹ Excellence Cluster “Origin and Structure of the Universe”, 85748, Garching, Germany
¹⁰ Physik Department E62, Technische Universität München, 85748, Garching, Germany
¹¹ II.Physikalisches Institut, Justus Liebig Universität Giessen, 35392, Giessen, Germany
¹² Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Science, 117312, Moscow, Russia
¹³ Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218, Moscow, Russia
¹⁴ Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus
¹⁵ Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91406, Orsay Cedex, France
¹⁶ Nuclear Physics Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 25068, Rez, Czech Republic
¹⁷ LabCAF. F. Física, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela, 15706, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
¹⁸ INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044, Frascati (Roma), Italy
¹⁹ Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università di Torino, 10125, Torino, Italy

^* e-mail: Juergen.Friese@ph.tum.de

Received: 27 June 2017
Accepted: 11 August 2017
Published online: 26 September 2017

Abstract

The combination of a production target for secondary beams, an optimized ion optical beam line setting, in-beam detectors for minimum ionizing particles with high rate capability, and an efficient large acceptance spectrometer around the reaction target constitutes an experimental opportunity to study in detail hadronic interactions utilizing pion beams impinging on nucleons and nuclei. For the 0.4-2.0GeV/c pion momentum regime such a facility is located at the heavy ion synchrotron accelerator SIS18 in Darmstadt (Germany). The layout of the apparatus, performance of its components and encouraging results from a first commissioning run are presented.

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