Studies of K⁺- meson collisions with protons at an incident momentum close to 150-GeV/c

Technical Report · Fri Feb 14 04:00:00 EST 1975

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1847386· OSTI ID:1847386

Fong, D. G. ^[1]; Rubin, Howard A. ^[2]

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1. Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States)
2. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States); et al.

We propose exposures of approximately 0.5 ev/μb equivalent for K⁺ mesons as close as possible to 150 GeV/c in the FNAL 30-inch Bubble Chamber Proportional Wire Hybrid System. We request these exposures as soon as suitably enriched beams of K⁺ mesons are available to that facility.. For beams with K⁺/contaminant ratio R, the exposure will require $$\frac{1}{R}$$ x 100,000 pictures and will yield approximately 10,000 K⁺p interactions for study. The-purpose of these experiments is to carry out a detailed study, with modest statistical accuracy, of kaon-proton collisions at energies significantly above those at which such data currently exists, and to further extend the range of incident channel quantum numbers over which multiparticle production has been explored at FNAL energies. The choice of energy is such as to allow us to make a reasonable cross particle comparison with existing data at 147 GeV/c. An integral part of this proposal is the development of the K⁺ meson beam. We are prepared to explore the techniques described in W. W. Neale's FN-259 2200 Report, either alone or in collaboration with other interested parties. We are also prepared to study alternate K⁺ beam producing techniques. We expect this proposal to proceed in two phases. The first phase being a feasibility study of the K⁺ beam and the second phase, contingent on the success of the first phase, being the proposed physics exposure.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1847386
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PROPOSAL-0375; oai:inspirehep.net:107313
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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