1. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC1 Progress in MPD (Multi Purpose Detector) PAC on Particle Physics Progress in MPD (Multi Purpose Detector) project status report PAC on Particle Physics, JINR, Dubna  Physics Motivation & competitiveness – White Book  Collaboration  MPD Concept  Working Groups activity  Time Schedule  Conclusions V.Kekelidze

2. 2 Physics tasks for MultiPurpose Detector  event-by-event fluctuation in hadron productions (multiplicity, Pt etc.)  HBT correlations indicating the space-time size of the systems involving π, K, p, Λ  directed & elliptic flows for various hadrons  multi-strange hyperon production: yield & spectra (the probes of nuclear media phases)  photon & electron probes  search for P- & CP violation as a charge asymmetry 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC should be studied for different ions (from p to Au) by scanning in b & energy (in the range  S NN = 4 - 11 GeV/u)

3. 3 NICA/MPD –competitive & complimentary to  running experiments - STAR, Phenix at RHIC (BNL) preparation for LES - NA49/NA61 & ALICE at SPS & LHC (CERN) - HADES at SIS-18 (GSI)  in preparation: - CBM at SIS-100/300 (GSI) 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC NICA / MPD advantages - optimal energy range for max baryonic density - close to 4 pi geometry - homogeneous acceptance & resolution functions versus measured & scanned parameters (kinematics, b, energy etc.)

4. 4 MPD LoIFeb 2008 MPD CDR (first version) May 2009 White book (first version) June 2009 MPD project documents 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

5. The MPD Collaboration  Joint Institute for Nuclear Research  Institute for Nuclear Research, RAS, RF  Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, NAS, Ukraine  Nuclear Physics Institute of MSU, RF  Institute Theoretical & Experimental Physics, RF  St.Petersburg State University, RF  Institute of Applied Physics, AS, Moldova  Institute for Nuclear Reseach & Nuclear Energy BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria  Institute for Scintillation Materials, Kharkov, Ukraine  State Enterprise Scientific & Technology Research Institute for Apparatus construction, Kharkov, Ukraine  Particle Physics Center of Belarussia State University 514 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC MPD Collaboration Members of the Collaboration  JINR ~ 100  Other institutes ~ 50 Institutions  JINR  + 10 institutes from 5 countries The Collaboration is permanently growing New members – are welcome Version 0.7 http://nica.jinr.ru/files/CDR_MPD/MPD_CDR.pdf

6. 6 Progress of the MPD project preparation The first MPD concept was presented in LoI issued in February 2008 - it is now modified The first version of MPD CDR was issued in June 2009 Now the version 0.7 is available It will be developed in 2010 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC http://nica.jinr.ru Version 0.7

7. 7 3D view of the MPD (conceptual design) SC Solenoid Forward spectrometer-B Toroid 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC 3 stages of putting into operation 1-st stage barrel part (TPC, Ecal, TOF) + ZDC, BBC, S-SC, … 2-nd stage IT,EC-subdetectors 3-d stage F-spectrometers (optional ?)

8. CD η-regions & energy scan 8 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

9. 9 Working Groups  TPC prototyping - Yu.Zanevski et. al.  Magnet- A.Kovalenko, V.Borisov et.al.  ECal - I.Tyapkin, A.Olchevsky et.al.  TOF- V.Golovatyuk et.al.  Straw wheels- V.Peshekhonov et.al.  ZCal - A.Kurepin et.al.  CPC- Yu.Kiryushin et.al.  FFD- V.Yurevich et.al.  BBC- R.Zulkarneev et.al.  DAQ- V.Slepnev, S.Bazylev et.al.  IT- Yu.Murin, V.Nikitin et.al. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC The CBM-MPD SST consortium: GSI - JINR – IHEP - … in IT silicon module development is well progressing

10. 10 Discussion with the potential participators, contractors having an experience in large solenoid construction has started. A schedule and cost evaluation will be prepared a.s.a.p. for: conceptual design + R&D technical documentation reparation production and tests Magnet - project development 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

11. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC11 TPC Prototype-2 construction design spoke sample Al flange bottom plate as a central electrode carbon-plastic cylinder D=95 cm, L=70 cm, wall thickness = 3 mm

12. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC12 Assembling of ТРС Field cage HV electrode

13. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC13 ТРС Prototype: Time scale in 2010

14. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC14 EM calorimeter prototyping

15. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC15 EM calorimeter (performance study)  High energy and time resolution  Good PID capabilities for photons, electrons and hadrons

16. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC16 Neutron / gamma separation with Ecal TOF + Energy E = 1 GeV Efficiency (Energy)

17. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC17 Neutron / gamma separation with Ecal X-Y (transverse) & Z (longitudinal) shapes of the cluster profiles Efficiency of neutron identification: 95% with 3 % admixture of photons

18. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC18 Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC)  Event centrality determination  Event plane reconstruction capability 80 modules 5x5 cm 2 60 layers of lead-scintillator (4:1), 6 WLS-fibers for light readout MAPD as photodetectors

19. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC19 ZDC performance  Energy resolution (  ZDC ~ 6 GeV) meets the experiment requirements  Centrality determination in the range 0..11 fm Energy deposited in ZDC versus centrality Energy deposited in ZDC versus track multiplicity

20. Integration & services 20 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

21. Installation sequence & support structure Solenoid + ECal ECal Solenoid + ECal +TOFSolenoid + ECal +TOF+TPC 2114 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC rails

22. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC22 Analysis of hadron spectra & yields with the MPD detector Goals:  feasibility for extraction of hadronic yields with a proposed MPD design  estimation of sub-detector parameters crucial for good particle identification (PID) Procedure:  Full reconstruction chain implementing hit production, tracking, TPC-TOF matching,  Particle identification procedure has been developed using TOF information  All corrections are determined from MC simulation : reconstruction efficiency, acceptance, decays in flight, secondary interactions, etc.  Invariant p t -distributions of p, K, p are obtained  Analysis procedure and results are described in the CDR

23. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC23 Large acceptance PID capability for hadrons & expected acceptances (TPC+TOF-barrel configuration) Excellent PID for hadrons!

24. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC24 Fit: Hadron spectra in central Au+Au collisions 300 events CDR v0.7, p.192 Results of feasibility study:  Excellent parameters of the MPD for study of hadron yields  High reliability of the developed reconstruction (tracking, PID) & analysis algorithms (correction evaluations, reconstruction of pt-spectra) fit: Deviation from the reference values below 6% (only for 300 events)!

25. Timetable of the MPD works 25 the first colliding beams for MPD is expected in 2015 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

26. 26 Physics motivation & competitiveness are well proven by the White Book & Round Table -4 The MPD design & R&D are progressing -the 7-th version of the CDR is available Working Groups have started to work on the prototypes The first stage of the experiment is defined and could be prepared as a project The MPD collaboration is growing New members are welcome Conclusions 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

27. 27 Thank you 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

28. 28 Spare 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

29. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC29 Midrapidity p t – distribution

30. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC30 Particle identification

31. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC31 Resources for NICA & MPD, in k$

32. 32  the study of hot & dense baryonic matter would provide us with relevant information on - in-medium properties of hadrons & nuclear matter equation of state - de-confinement and chiral symmetry restoration, - phase transition, mixed phase & critical end-point - possible strong P- & CP violation Physics motivation  It is indicated in series of theoretical works -A. Sissakian, A. Sorin, V. Toneev, G. Zinovjev et al. -M. Gazdzicki, M. Gorenstein, -.... that an optimal way to reach the highest possible baryon density in the lab is heavy ion collision at  S NN = 4 - 11 GeV/u 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

33. Particle identification TPC using ionization TPC (ionization) & TPC+TOF (mass reconstruction) 33 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC pion kaon proton

34. 34 Phase diagram NICA 14 January 201034V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

35. 35 Physics Motivation LE-RHIC scan LE-RHIC scan NICA energy range NICA energy range 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

36. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC36

37. CD assembly (without IT) completed Rails TOF Solenoid ECal 3714 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

38. 38 SPD: Spin Physics Detector (preliminary) Leaders: A.Nagaitsev, I.Savin, O.Shevchenko Requirement to the detector: 4  geometry to enlarge MMTDY event statistics minimal X 0 – effective detection of lepton pairs good angular resolution – very important for azimuthal spin asymmetry measurements in the wide kinematical region 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

39. 39 Resources evaluation: NICA + 50% MPD Aggressive profile requires special decisions Takes into account labor cost & its regular rising 235 802,8 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

40. Round Table IV & the NICA White Paper JINR Dubna Lebedev Institute, Russia Kurchatov Institute, Russia St.Petersburg SU, Russia ITEP, Russia LBNL, USA Ohio SU, USA University of Illinois, USA BNL, USA INR, Russia University of Barselona, Spain University of Florence, Italy University of Cape Town, South Africa INFN, Italy University of Giessen, Germany National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Accelerator, China Institute of High Energy Physics, ChinaVariable Energy Cyclotron Centre, India Jan Kochanovski University, Poland University of Frankfurt, Germany University of Coimbra, Portugal Wayne SU, USA BITP, Ukraine Tel Aviv University, Israel Weizmann Institute, Israel University of Catania, Italy Mateja Bela University, Slovakia Institute of Applied Science, Moldova GSI, Germany MEPhI, Russia 39 scientific centers 15 Countries (8 JINR members) in University of Oslo, Norway INP MSU, Russia University of Bielefeld, Germany 86 authors from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China SISSA, Italy University of Trento, Italy Arizona State University, USA Wroclav University, Poland Los Alamos National Laborator 9 September 2009 14 January 201040V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

41. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC41 MPD financial profile in k$

42. 42 CDR developmen Responsibilities  Physics coordination - Sisakian A., Sorin A.,Toneev V.  Technical coordinator - Golovatyuk V.  Software, MC & tracking coordinator - Rogachevsky O. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC  Kolesnikov V.I.  Krumshtein Z.V.  Lednicky R.  Lokhtin I.P.  Malinina L.V.  Musulmanbekov G.J.  Murin Yu.A.  Nikitin V.A.  Olchevski A.G.  Stavinskiy A.V.  Toneev V.D.  Tyapkin I.A. Main contributors to the physics tasks

43. Neutral kaon & Hyperon detection 43 Neutral kaon & Lambda decays invariant mass reconstruction V 0 reconstruction 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC

44. New technologies for 44  Max transparency (low X 0 ) of end cap structure  New electronics providing the rate of ~ 6 kHz 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC TPC construction - Straw Wheels Design

45. 14 January 2010V.Kekelidze, PP PAC45 Resource profiles in k$