Technical Design Report for PANDA Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC)

This document presents the technical layout and the envisaged performance of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC) for the PANDA target spectrometer. The EMC has been designed to meet the physics goals of the PANDA experiment, which is being developed for the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at Darmstadt, Germany. The performance figures are based on extensive prototype tests and radiation hardness studies. The document shows that the EMC is ready for construction up to the front-end electronics interface

Analysis Tools for Next-Generation Hadron Spectroscopy Experiments

The series of workshops on {\it New Partial-Wave Analysis Tools for Next-Generation Hadron Spectroscopy Experiments} was initiated with the\break ATHOS 2012 meeting, which took place in Camogli, Italy, June 20--22, 2012. It was followed by ATHOS~2013 in Kloster Seeon near Munich, Germany, May 21--24, 2013. The third, ATHOS3, meeting is planned for April 13--17, 2015 at The George Washington University Virginia Science and Technology Campus, USA. The workshops focus on the development of amplitude analysis tools for meson and baryon spectroscopy, and complement other programs in hadron spectroscopy organized in the recent past including the INT-JLab Workshop on Hadron Spectroscopy in Seattle in 2009, the International Workshop on Amplitude Analysis in Hadron Spectroscopy at the ECT*-Trento in 2011, the School on Amplitude Analysis in Modern Physics in Bad Honnef in 2011, the Jefferson Lab Advanced Study Institute Summer School in 2012, and the School on Concepts of Modern Amplitude Analysis Techniques in Flecken-Zechlin near Berlin in September 2013. The aim of this document is to summarize the discussions that took place at the ATHOS~2012 and ATHOS~2013 meetings. We do not attempt a comprehensive review of the field of amplitude analysis, but offer a collection of thoughts that we hope may lay the ground for such a document. The material presented in the article was edited by the following Editorial Board: Marco Battaglieri, Bill J.~Briscoe, Su-Urk Chung, Michael D\"oring, JĂłzef Dudek, Geoffrey Fox, Christoph Hanhart, Martin Hoferichter, David G.~Ireland, Bernhard Ketzer, Bastian Kubis, Vincent Mathieu, Ryan Mitchell, Jos\'e R.~Pel\'aez, Elena Santopinto, Adam Szczepaniak

Physics Performance Report for PANDA: Strong Interaction Studies with Antiprotons

To study fundamental questions of hadron and nuclear physics in interactions of antiprotons with nucleons and nuclei, the universal PANDA detector will be built. Gluonic excitations, the physics of strange and charm quarks and nucleon structure studies will be performed with unprecedented accuracy thereby allowing high-precision tests of the strong interaction. The proposed PANDA detector is a state-of-the art internal target detector at the HESR at FAIR allowing the detection and identification of neutral and charged particles generated within the relevant angular and energy range. This report presents a summary of the physics accessible at PANDA and what performance can be expected