Objetivo The main thrust of this project consists in performing systematic studies of dilepton production in heavy-ion collisions at bombarding energies between 1 to 10 AGeV with the HADES detector at FAIR. The highest baryonic densities are expected to be achieved close to the 10 AGeV and therefore it is of primary concern to extend HADES scope up to this energy. The goal being a better understanding of the various processes contributing to dilepton production in hot and compressed nuclear matter, leading ultimately to a search for signals of the partial restoration of the chiral symmetry of QCD, the theory of strong interactions.The chosen experimental approach consists in the measurement of lepton pairs from decaying baryon and meson resonances inside the reaction volume. The major experimental challenge thereby consists in discriminating the penetrating, but very weak leptonic signal from the many orders of magnitude larger hadronic background. The High-Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer HADES at GSI has in fact been designed with excellent lepton/hadron discrimination, a 10-fold better mass resolution (sM/M = 1-2%) and a nearly 100-fold higher acceptance (e = 32%) than the pioneering DLS spectrometer operated at the BEVALAC more than 10 years ago. Medium-resolution data have already been taken with HADES over the last years on the light C+C system at 1 and 2AGeV. Their detailed analysis gives first hints on the searched-for hadronic in-medium effects.A first physics run on the heavier system Ar+KCl was carried out in 2005 and the analysis of the data obtained is part of the project. An important next step of the present project is to complement HADES with the refurbished KaoS plastic forward wall, thus vastly enhancing its event-characterization capabilities. Finally, the extension of these experiments to heavy systems, beyond Ar+KCl and up to Au+Au, as well as to higher beam energies beyond the presently available 2AGeV, i.e. up to 10AGeV needs an upgrade of the HADES time-of-flight wall with a highly-segmented array of resistive-plate counters (RPC). Fully realistic simulation studies of HADES complemented by these new detector systems will be implemented, with the aim to verify the possibility to study with high mass resolution vector-meson production in Au+Au collisions up to a beam energy of 10AGeV. Palabras clave Electromagnetic and Hadronic Probes Nuclear Instrumentation and Applications Nucleonic Structures Programa(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Tema(s) Data not available Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación Data not available Coordinador NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE (ASCR) Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección ASCR-1 RE Chequia Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (4) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo GESELLSCHAFT FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG (GSI) Alemania Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección PLANCKSTRASSE, 1 DARMSTADT Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH, RAS Rusia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 60TH OCTOBER ANNIVERSARY PROSPEKT, 7A MOSCOW Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH (JINR) Rusia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección JULIOT CURIE STREET, 6 DUBNA, MOSCOW REGION Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA Portugal Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección COIMBRA Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos