SRC at BM@N: Reconstruction of tracks upstream and downstream from the target using the MWPC and silicon detector systems

Abstract

The Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron (BM@N) is the first experiment with a fixed target at the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) in Dubna (Russia). Along with baryonic matter study, the BM@N physics program includes the study of Short-Range Correlations (SRC) in nuclei. The SRC measurement was carried out in 2018. We used 12C beam with the momentum of 48 GeV/c and a liquid hydrogen target. The quasi-free scattering of 12C on protons was recorded with the BM@N spectrometer, which was slightly modified for the SRC experiment. Particularly, the target proton and knocked out proton under the condition of scattering at 90 degrees in the center-of-mass coordinate system were recorded in the arm spectrometer using time-of-flight and coordinate detectors. After interaction, the residual nucleus continued moving along the beam and passed through the scintillator and coordinate detectors as well as the analyzing magnet. This contribution describes the track reconstruction in Multiwire Proportional Chambers (MWPC) and Silicon Detector systems (Si), as well as a method of obtaining combined tracks after the target using the information from MWPC and Si. This is a basis for the identification of nuclear fragments described in the first physics analysis, which was submitted for publication.