DIGITAL-COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM BUBBLE CHAMBERS. IV. THE KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF COMPLETE EVENTS

Technical Report · Tue Feb 16 04:00:00 EST 1960

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4836830· OSTI ID:4836830

Rosenfeld, A. H.; Snyder, J. N.

A digital computer program called KICK (K-meson Interaction Coplanarization and Kinematics), which carries out the analysis of complete bubble chamber events, is described. The program inputs data from a single-track analysis program which has used raw track measurements to perform the spatial reconstruction of tracks and has fitted appropriate curves to them. KICK consists of a set of general processing or analysis routines, each of which is capable of carrying out one of the unique processing steps to which a given event may have to be subjected for proper analysis, for example Input Event,'' Fit Vertex,'' Transform Variables Along Track,'' Output Results,'' etc. Also included is a set of event-type control subroutines each of which, calling upon the proper sequence of these general processing routines, is able to carry out the desired analysis of a particular type of event. AIthough originally prepared for the experiment on the interaction of low-energy K/sup -/ mesons (0 to 400 Mev/c) and protons, the program is extendable (and has been extended) to other bubble chamber experiments. (auth)

• Research Organization: California. Univ., Berkeley; and California. Univ., Berkeley. Lawrence Radiation Lab.; Illinois. Univ., Urbana. Digital Computer Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• NSA Number: NSA-16-000475
• OSTI ID: 4836830
• Report Number(s): UCRL-9098
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

BUBBLE CHAMBERS
COMPUTERS
DIGITAL SYSTEMS
ENERGY RANGE
INTERACTIONS
KAONS
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS
PROGRAMMING
PROTONS