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Laguerre-Gaussian-like laser beams have been proposed for driving experiments with high-intensity lasers. They carry orbital angular momentum and exhibit a ring-shaped intensity distribution in the far field which make them particularly attractive for various applications. [...]

In the next decade, several new accelerator facilities will come into operation, which will offer unprecedented opportunities for the experimental investigation of strongly interacting matter at high net-baryon densities as created in nucleus-nucleus collisions at moderate energies. The new experiments will complement existing and running experiments in this field and enhance the physics reach with increased rate capabilities. [...]

This paper is dedicated to the current state of the Geometry Database (Geometry DB) for the CBM experiment. The geometry DB is an information system that supports the CBM geometry. [...]

In position-sensitive detectors with segmented readout (pixels or strips), charged particles activate in general several adjacent read-out channels. The first step in the reconstruction of the hit position is thus to identify clusters of active channels associated to one particle crossing the detector. [...]