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