Development of gas detector for CBM:

Simulation, design and fabrication of muon detection system at Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR. This experiment will investigate the formation of high-density nuclear matter likely to be produced at FAIR energy using heavy ion collisions. Studying the matter at high baryon density is important to understand phase-transition from hadronic to QGP phase, location of tri-critical point, understand the environment similar to the core of neutron star. The detector system will consist of up to 16 (sixteen) muon tracking stations placed inside several layers of absorber. The muon stations need to be fast and with high position resolution. A detailed R&D is needed to achieve the design goal. Possible options are GEM and MICROMEGAS based gaseous detector system with high granularity. Advanced electronics (ASIC) systems are to be developed for the data collection from this detector system.

It has therefore two-fold objectives, one is with basic science which will unravel the mystery of the core of neutron star and other is technology of detectors.  The phase-diagram of strongly interacting matter is being explored at SPS-CERN, RHIC-BNL and at at LHC-CERN with higher and higher incident energy. Theoretical predictions of the formation of deconfined state of matter called Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) are being tested in these facilities along with the general understanding of the physics of high energy heavy ion collisions.

On the other front, detector design and fabrication at these experiments deal with latest detector technology, high speed data acquisition and data analysis using latest information technology (e.g grid technology).