CHARMED MESON RECONSTRUCTION WITH THE PANDA DETECTOR

The PANDA detector will allow to investigate the charmonium region in annihilation processes at a energy range for which production cross sections of charmonium states are unknown, in particular for those above the threshold. Cross sections for these states are expected to be rather small, so that it has to be verified that PANDA can cope with small rates. Therefore, several reaction channels have been identified as "benchmark channels" and the PANDA performance has been investigated in Monte Carlo studies. The focus of the charmed benchmark channels is to show the physics performance of the planned apparatus and to investigate the feasibility of separating the physics signal from a huge hadronic background.