The D0 muon system and early results on its performance

Conference · Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:7137939

Hedin, D ^[1]

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1. Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics

The D0 detector is a large, general-purpose detector designed to take full advantage of the 2 TeV energy of the Fermilab collider. The design of the experiment emphasizes accurate identification, complete angular acceptance, and precise measurement of the decay products of W and Z bosons: charged leptons (both electrons and muons), quarks and gluons, which emerge as collimated jets of particles, and noninteracting particles, such as neutrinos. The primary physics goals of D0 include searching for new phenomena, such as the top quark or particles outside the standard model, and high-precision studies of the W and Z bosons. In addition, the excellent muon identification will allow the study of b-quark production and decay. This report will describe D0's muon system, give preliminary measurements of chamber and trigger rates, and discuss muon identification.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 7137939
• Report Number(s): FNAL/C-92/305; CONF-920837-27; ON: DE93004745
• Resource Relation: Conference: ICHEP-26: 26th International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) conference on high energy physics, Dallas, TX (United States), 6-12 Aug 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS
PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS
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