A high-rate fixed-target charm experiment
- Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb, IL (United States)
In the P865 Letter of Intent, we have proposed a fixed-target experiment aimed at achieving high sensitivity to decays both of charm and of beauty. I describe here a revised version which is somewhat more optimized for charm and less so for beauty. The rationale for this change of emphasis is two-fold: by the time a new fixed-target experiment might run ({approx} Year 2000), it is likely that studies of beauty at the level proposed in P865 win no longer be competitive; furthermore, it may well be that charm is even more interesting than beauty since the background to rare processes beyond the Standard Model is so much smaller in charm than in beauty. At this workshop, Pakvasa has emphasized that rare and forbidden processes such as D{sup o} mixing, charm-changing neutral currents, and lepton-family-violating currents must exist at some level if we are ever to have an understanding of the fermion masses and mixings; some extensions of the Standard Model predict effects detectable at the level of sensitivity discussed here.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03000
- OSTI ID:
- 10191858
- Report Number(s):
- FNAL/C-94/201; CONF-9406242-4; ON: DE95001767; TRN: 94:023845
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Workshop on the future of high sensitivity charm experiments,Batavia, IL (United States),7-9 Jun 1994; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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