Workshop for young scientists with research interests focused on physics at FAIR

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the future FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) complex will investigate the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter at high baryon density and moderate temperatures in A+A collisions from 4-35 AGeV. One of the key detector components required for this CBM physics program is the RICH (Ring Imaging CHerenkov) detector, which is...

HADES provides a large acceptance combined with a high mass-resolution and therefore allows to study dielectron and hadron production in heavy-ion collisions with unprecedented precision. With the high statistics of seven billion Au-Au collisions at 1.23 AGeV recorded in 2012 the investigation of high-order flow harmonics is possible. Collective flow phenomena are a sensitive probe for the...

The future PANDA experiment at FAIR has a rich and broad physics program. Hyperon production and the study of their properties is one of them. Antihyperon-hyperon pairs can be produced in antiproton-proton collisions through the annihilation of at least one light (u, d) antiquark-quark pair and the creation of sbar s antiquark-quark pairs. Ground state hyperons can only decay through the weak...

We discuss some properties of QCD at nonzero density and nonzero temperature. At nonzero density we describe the emergence of inhomogeneous quark-antiquark condensate in the framework of QCD effective models. We show that such an inhomogenous condensate is favored at high enough density. In particular, we use an effective hadronic model which makes use of chiral symmetry and includes a light...