Prompt production of muon neutrinos and muon antineutrinos in proton-tungsten collisions

Thesis/Dissertation · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5006882

Hoftun, J S

An experiment was performed in a 400 GeV/c proton beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to study the production of neutrinos from the decay of short-lived particles in tungsten targets. The apparatus used to detect the neutrinos was a lead/liquid scintillator calorimeter with Proportional Wire Chambers for particle tracking followed by a muon spectrometer to measure the momentum of the muons created in interactions of neutrinos in the calorimeter. In particlar the ratio of antineutrino to neutrino flux was measured to be 1.4 +/- .4. The result is not significantly different from 1.0 to show any evidence of the production of any other charmed particles than D-mesons.

• Research Organization: Ohio State Univ., Columbus (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5006882
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANTILEPTONS
ANTIMATTER
ANTINEUTRINOS
ANTIPARTICLES
BARYON REACTIONS
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CHARM PARTICLES
DATA
DECAY
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ELEMENTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FERMIONS
HADRON REACTIONS
INFORMATION
LEPTONS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
METALS
MUON ANTINEUTRINOS
MUON NEUTRINOS
NEUTRINOS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEON REACTIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
POSTULATED PARTICLES
PROTON REACTIONS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
TUNGSTEN
WEAK PARTICLE DECAY