FOCUS: a charm photo-production experiment at FERMILAB

Journal Article · Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1998 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.55075· OSTI ID:21182510

Carrillo, Salvador; Vazquez, Fabiola ^[1]

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1. Physics Department, Cinvestav, I.P.N. (Mexico)

FOCUS is designed to detect states of matter combining one or more charm quarks with light quarks (strange, up, down). The experiment aims to create 10 times as many such particles as in previous experiments and to observe rare phenomena that may shed light on fundamental interactions of the strong and electroweak forces. The experiment collected data during the 1996-97 fixed target run, and investigate several topics on charm physics including high precision studies of charm semileptonic decays, QCD studies using double charm events, measurements of D{sup 0}'s absolute branching fraction, systematic investigation of charm baryons and their lifetimes, and searches for D{sup 0} mixing, CP violation, rare and forbidden decays, and fully leptonic decays of D{sup +}. Based on E687 experience, FOCUS (E831) expects to fully reconstruct 10{sup 6} charm particle decays.

• OSTI ID: 21182510
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 422, Issue 1; Conference: School on instrumentation in elementary particle physics, Leon (Mexico), 7-19 Jul 1997; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.55075; (c) 1998 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BARYONS
BRANCHING RATIO
CHERENKOV COUNTERS
CP INVARIANCE
D NEUTRAL MESONS
D QUARKS
FERMILAB
LEPTONIC DECAY
MULTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETERS
MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS
PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
PHOTOPRODUCTION
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
SEMILEPTONIC DECAY
U QUARKS