Reconstruction of energy and collision point of heavy ions with forward hadron calorimeter at MPD setup

Abstract

The Forward Hadron Calorimeter (FHCal) is one of the sub-detectors of MPD/NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility). FHCal consists of two arms, each containing 44 modules. Modules have longitudinal segmentation and are divided into 7 equal sections. Each section contains 6 pairs of lead-scintillator plates. FHCal’s main goal is to determine geometry of ion collision by measuring the energy distribution of spectators. In order to determine the energy distribution in FHCal, modules were calibrated with cosmic muons. Another important goal facing FHCal is determination of ion collision point in MPD during first stage of MPD’s operation, when no precise ways of doing this will be available. Two methods are presented in this work: using energy distribution in FHCal and using difference in time pulses from opposite FHCal arms.