An expression of interest in a Super Fixed Target Beauty Facility (SFT) at the Superconducting Super Collider

Technical Report · Fri May 25 04:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6283115· OSTI ID:6283115

The concept of a Super Fixed Target Beauty Facility (SFT) which uses a relatively low intensity 20 TeV proton beam as a generator of very high momenta B's is an exciting prospect which is very competitive with other B factory ideas. The yields of B's in such a facility are quite high (3 {times} 10{sup 10} {yields} 10{sup 11} B's per year). At this level of statistics, CP violation measurements will be possible in many modes. In addition, the fixed target configuration, because of the high momenta of the produced B's and the resulting long decay lengths, facilitates the detection and reconstruction of B's and offers unique opportunities for observation of the B decays. The limited solid angle coverage required for the fixed target spectrometer makes the cost of the facility much cheaper than other e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} or hadron collider options under consideration. The relatively low intensity 20 TeV beam (1 {yields} 2 {times} 10{sup 8} protons/second) needed for the SFT makes it possible to consider an extraction system which operates concurrently and in a non-interfering manner with the other collider experiments. One possible method for generating such a beam, crystal channeling, is discussed.

• Research Organization: Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AS05-89ER40518
• OSTI ID: 6283115
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40518-T1; ON: DE91007404
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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