The Highly-Granular Time-of-Flight Neutron Detector for the BM@N experiment
/ Authors
S. Morozov, V. Bocharnikov, D. Finogeev, M. Golubeva, F. Guber, A. Izvestnyy, N. Karpushkin, A. Makhnev, P. Parfenov, D. Serebryakov
and 3 more authors
/ Abstract
A new Highly-Granular time-of-flight Neutron Detector (HGND) is being developed and constructed to measure azimuthal neutron flow and neutron yields in nucleus-nucleus interactions in heavy-ion collisions with energies up to 4A GeV in the fixed target experiment BM@N at JINR. Details of the detector design and results of performance studies for neutron identification and reconstruction are shown. Comparison of simulations for different options of the HGND layout at the BM@N is presented. Several proposed methods of neutron reconstruction including machine learning and cluster methods are discussed.