Development of Forward Tracker

Abstract

Abstract The High Acceptence DiElectron Spectrometer has experienced many years of successful operation which revealed high capability of measuring resonance production in proton-proton and pion-proton reactions. Since many of the production channels that are crucial for the understanding of the resonance production are highly anisotropic, that a large part of the signal would be located in the most forward and backward phase space regions, a new opportunity to an upgrade to the detector for improving the phase-space acceptance in this region has been proposed. The Forward Tracker (FT) will cover the polar angle in the detector system between 0°and 6.5°, which significantly will increase the detection acceptance. The FT is in construction with the synergy with PANDA Central Tracker, and is realized by groups from Jagellionian University, FZ Jülich and LIP Coimbra. The development of the new and faster readout electronics (DAQ) to cope with higher data rates, track reconstruction and the results from the beam time at Forschungszentrum Jülich are discussed.