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Title: Heavy flavor production in fixed-target experiments

Conference ·
OSTI ID:6589976

This presentation is a review of recent measurements on charm production at fixed-target experiments. The measurements are relevant to a number of basic physics issues: tests of perturbative QCD, fragmentation, and basic hadronic structure. We now have high quality, high statistics data from several fixed-target experiments. These include a total of about 30,000 fully reconstructed open charm decays and even more copious J/{Psi}, {Psi}, and {Upsilon} decays. Reconstruction of the full data is now reaching completion and we await final results for systematic physics interpretations. This review of the current situation will be followed by a brief look beyond, toward beauty production at fixed-target experiments.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/ER
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH03000
OSTI ID:
6589976
Report Number(s):
FNAL/C-90/173; CONF-9006268-5; ON: DE91001545; TRN: 90-034671
Resource Relation:
Conference: 10. international conference on physics in collision, Durham, NC (USA), 21-23 Jun 1990
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English