The CBM ECAL

The CBM experiment at FAIR

The high-intensity heavy-ion beams of the FAIR accelerators, together with the planned Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment [1], offer unique possibilities to produce and to investigate baryonic matter at highest densities in the laboratory. According to calculations, baryon densities of up to 10 times saturation density (comparable to the ones in the inner core of neutron stars) and ene...

Qualification of the Front End Cards for the CMS ECAL

The Front End (FE) card is a critical component of the new readout architecture for the CMS ECAL. The module hosts the Front End New Intermediate data eXtractor (FENIX) ASIC that contains the DSP for trigger primitive generation and RAM for the digital pipeline and the primary event buffers. The Front end Automatic Tester (FAT) allows fast fault detection to ensure that the manufacturing proces...

CMS ECAL Calibration Strategy

The CMS Electromagnetic crystal Calorimeter (ECAL) must be precisely calibrated if its full potential performance is to be realized. Inter-calibration from laboratory measurements and cosmic ray muons will be available for all crystals and has been demonstrated to give good pre-calibration values at the start-up; some crystals will be also inter-calibrated using an electron beam. In-situ calibr...

The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment ECAL Electromagnetic CALorimeter Design Guidelines For Implementation of Boundary Scan in the ECAL/HCAL Crates

Status of the CBM experiment

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the Facility for AntiProton and Ion Research (FAIR) will explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter at highest net baryon densities and moderate temperatures. The CBM physics program will be started with beams delivered by the SIS 100 synchrotron, providing energies from 2 to 11 GeV/nucleon for heavy nuclei, up to 14 GeV/nucleon f...