The TOF400 and TOF700 System Performance During the First Physics Run at the BM@N Experiment

Abstract

The BM@N experiment is a fixed-target experiment at the NICA accelerator complex and aims to study the interactions of relativistic heavy ions in the energy range corresponding to high baryon density. To identify charged particles in the BM@N, two time-of-flight systems, TOF400 and TOF700, are used. After the 2022–2023 physics run of the experiment, a series of calibration procedures was performed. In the work described are details of the calibration technique as well as evaluation of the system characteristics.