Development of a detector and data analysis for particles in the rapidity range 2.5< vertical stroke y vertical stroke <4 at the relativistic heavy ion collider in Brookhaven

To investigate collisions of heavy nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in Brookhaven, the Forward Time Projection Chambers for the STAR Experiment were developed at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik in Munich. Topic of the thesis were the developments of detector components and of parts of the data analysis as well as the investigation of the estimated performance of the detector. Predictions simulated using different models were compared, and it was investigated to which extent fluctuations of different observables from collision to collision can be reconstructed with the detector