Beauty production in $$\pi^{-}$$ A collisions at 530-GeV/c

Thesis/Dissertation · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1156339· OSTI ID:1156339

Jesik, Richard ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)

Beauty hadroproduction was investigated in at the Fermilab Tevatron by experiment E672/E706 using a large-aperture, open-geometry spectrometer with the capability of studying high-mass muon pairs. The E672 muon spcarometer consisted of a toroid magnet with proportional wire chambers (PWCs) located both upstream and downstream of the magnet. Two scintillarion counter hodoscopes were also located in the muon detector for triggering purposes. The upstream part of the charged particle tracking system consisted of a 16-plane silicon microstrip vertex detector, a dipole magnet, and a PWC-strawtubc array. Dimuon pretriggers were formed by coincidences between interaction counters and the muon hodoscopcs. A fut (10 μs) processor calculated the effective mass of track combinations in the muons system and generated a trigger if the mass was above an adjustable value.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1156339
• Report Number(s): UMI-94-14863
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English