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The main features of the proposed experiment layout are:

• a heavy ion beam on a heavy target which provides favorable conditions for the H0 formation both due to coalescence of two Lambda particles (owing to the large Lambda production cross section) and via direct production from possible formation of a quark-gluon plasma.
• a strong (5Tm) dipole magnet to sweep away beam, beam fragments and most of the produced baryons and mesons
• a low mass distributed drift chamber operating in a moderate magnetic field, to identify the weak decay of the H0 and neutral hyperons, while maintaining a low efficiency for gamma's and neutrons
• a small array of silicon drift detectors placed very near the target on the negative rigidity side of the beam for detecting very short-lived H0s, hyperons and anti-baryons
• a scintillator hodoscope neutron detector to provide detection of the neutron from the decay of the daughter Sigma-minus produced in the predcited weak decay channel of the H0
• a scintillator TOF wall to provide a fast trigger which will enhance the sample of events containing the most interesting topologies