Eur. Phys. J. A (2020) 56: 171
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00173-1

Regular Article -Theoretical Physics

PANDA as midrapidity detector for a future HESR Collider at FAIR

¹ Sackler School of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
² Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
³ Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany
⁴ Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Giersch Science Center, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
⁵ JARA-FAME (Forces and Matter Experiments), Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, Jülich, Germany
⁶ Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
⁷ GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany
⁸ Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Giessen, 35392, Giessen, Germany

^* e-mail: hees@th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de

Received: 28 August 2019
Accepted: 22 May 2020
Published online: 23 June 2020

Abstract

Exciting new scientific opportunities are presented for the PANDA detector at the High Energy Storage Ring in the redefined collider mode, HESR-C, at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Europe. The high luminosity, cm s, and a wide range of intermediate and high energies, up to 30 GeV for 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 -p- annihilation phase, where an initially pure Yang–Mills gluon plasma is formed.