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Status of the BM@STS Module Assembly

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The BM@N experiment at the Nuсlotron in Dubna is currently being upgraded for the study of dense nuclear matter in heavy-ion collisions. One of the major upgrades is a new hybrid tracking system consisting of the large-area Silicon Tracking System (STS) with fast data-driven readout to be installed in-front of seven GEM planes. The STS contains four position-sensitive stations built out of modules with double-sided microstrip silicon sensors which have been developed for the CBM experiment at FAIR. The assembly of the STS’s 292 constituent silicon modules is considered a challenge on its own right. For this task a working group at JINR’s Veksler and Budker Laboratory of High Energy Physics developed a set of customized methods which are briefly reported here along with the description of the assembly workflow and first results.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are thankful to Dr. Cesar Ceballos (JINR) for carefully reading this manuscript and making valuable remarks which allowed to improve the quality of the material presented.

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  1. Department of Silicon Tracking Systems, Laboratory of High Energy Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Moscow oblast, Russia

    A. Sheremetiev, D. Dementev, V. Elsha, A. Kolozhvari, Yu. Murin, M. Shitenkov & N. Sukhov

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Sheremetiev, A., Dementev, D., Elsha, V. et al. Status of the BM@STS Module Assembly. Phys. Part. Nuclei 53, 377–381 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779622020745

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