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Title: Strangeonium spectroscopy at 11 GeV/c and Cherenkov Ring Imaging at the SLD

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6641103· OSTI ID:6641103

This thesis is divided into two sections, which describe portions of the data acquisition system and online software for the Cherenkov Ring Imaging Detector (CRID) for the SLD, and analyses of several low cross section strangeonium channels in data from the LASS spectrometer. The CRID section includes a description of the data acquisition system, determination of the preamplifier gain, and development of an online pulse finding algorithm based on deconvolution. Deconvolution uses knowledge of the preamplifier impulse response to aid in pulse finding. The algorithm is fast and shows good single pulse resolution and excellent double pulse resolution in preliminary tests. The strangeonium analyses are based on data from a 4.1 event/nanobarn exposure of the LASS spectrometer in K{sup {minus}}p interactions at 11 GeV/c, and include studies of {Lambda}{eta}{pi}{sup {plus}}{pi}{sup {minus}}, {Lambda}{Kappa}*{Kappa}*, and {Lambda}{phi}{phi}.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/ER
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
6641103
Report Number(s):
SLAC-369; ON: DE90018003; TRN: 90-029228
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis (Ph.D.)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English