Status of the BM@STS Module Assembly

The BM@N experiment at the Nuсlotron in Dubna is currently being upgraded for the study of dense nuclear matter in heavy-ion collisions. One of the major upgrades is a new hybrid tracking system consisting of the large-area Silicon Tracking System (STS) with fast data-driven readout to be installed in-front of seven GEM planes. The STS contains four position-sensitive stations built out of modules with double-sided microstrip silicon sensors which have been developed for the CBM experiment at FAIR. The assembly of the STS’s 292 constituent silicon modules is considered a challenge on its own right. For this task a working group at JINR’s Veksler and Budker Laboratory of High Energy Physics developed a set of customized methods which are briefly reported here along with the description of the assembly workflow and first results.