[en] A spatial nonuniformity of the response to high-energy muons is studied in the modules of the LHCb electromagnetic calorimeter and the prototype of the calorimeter module with lead plates and scintillator tiles 0.5 mm thick. The nonuniformity of the response of the inner LHCb modules to 50-GeV electrons is also measured. Software is developed for a thorough simulation of light collection in scintillator plates of a shashlik calorimeter. A model is elaborated to describe light transmission from the initial scintillation to the wavelength-shifting fiber with a subsequent reradiation and propagation of light over the fiber to the photodetector. The results of the simulation are in good agreement with data.

[en] CBM is the first experiment gaining advantage of free-streaming triggerless readout system. All readout channels of the detector going to work in self triggered mode. Dedicated methods are developed to extract individual events (collisions) from continuous information stream rejecting noise. Efficiency of the methods depends on projectile energy, masses of colliding nucleons, interaction and accelerator frequencies. Quality control of the algorithms and comparison of the methods require special efforts. (paper)

[en] We present the design and performance of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) Experiment at FAIR. The main purpose of the ECAL detector is the identification and the measurement of energy and position of photons and electrons, which are produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions in the beam energy range from 4 to 40 AGeV. ECAL will measure spectra of photons and neutral mesons decaying in their photonic decay channels. Precise measurement of masses and widths of short-living mesons ( η, η′, ϕ χ_c etc.) will shed light on the chiral symmetry restoration which is expected to occur in dense nuclear matter. Measurements of the π ⁰ and meson spectrum are important to study dependence of the particle yield on thermodynamical parameters of nuclear mater. (paper)

[en] For ¹²C ⁹Be interactions at a kinetic beam energy of 3.2 GeV per nucleon, the spectra of photons at laboratory angles in the range 55^o-73^o were measured off the kinematical region available to the interaction of single nucleons within colliding nuclei. The use of a fast trigger for selecting events involving the production of high-transverse-momentum photons made it possible to measure spectra off the kinematical boundary of four-nucleon interaction. It is shown that the proposed procedure is adequate to the problem of searches for and investigation of flucton-flucton interaction. In the kinematical region where flucton-flucton interaction can manifest itself, the cross sections in question are on the same order of magnitude as respective model predictions. In order to draw definitive conclusions on the role of flucton-flucton interaction, it is highly desirable to extend the angular range of the measurements toward smaller angles.