Development of detector and physics analysis tools for PANDA experiments at FAIR

Abstract

The PANDA collaboration at FAIR facility will address a rich variety of physics programs for studies of strong interaction and perturbative QCD. In India, initiatives have been taken up for the design and construction of some components of the PANDA detector. A silicon photo multiplier based scintillation detector is being planned to be built in India in collaboration with GSI, Darmstadt. Simulation studies and R&D work are being carried out in designing this detector which can provide a fast trigger signal for the PANDA experiments. The other component of the PANDA detector which the Indian group is interested to develop is luminosity monitor detector(LMD). Currently two possible solutions are being considered for LMD: (i)a double sided silicon micro strip detector and (ii) radiation hard Gallium Nitride(GaN)/Diamond sensors with a pitch of 50 μm. Simulations are being carried out. The analysis tools of vertex and kinematic fitting have been developed within the software framework of Pandaroot. The vertex fitting for the primary and secondary vertex based on kinematic constraints have been implemented for the full decay tree reconstruction. Simulation studies have been performed using a few benchmark channels to evaluate the performance of these methods.