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The BABAR Prompt Reconstruction System

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/9943· OSTI ID:9943
BABAR is an experiment designed to explore the nature of CP violation and other physics in the B B-bar system starting in the Spring of 1999. The experiment is situated at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center where the former PEP electron-positron storage ring has been upgraded to an e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} asymmetric storage facility. The electrons at 9 GeV/c and positrons at 3.1 GeV/c will collide at the Y(4S) with a luminosity of 3 x 10{sup 33} cm{sup {minus}2} s{sup {minus}1}. The BABAR detector will record the B and B-bar decays resulting from the Y(4S). With careful vertexing, particle ID and other measurements, asymmetries between the B and B-bar decays will be analyzed. The expected data rate reaches 100 Hz of {approximately}32 kByte events recorded to mass storage. This results in {approximately}10{sup 9} logged events per year of operation. The raw data, combined with reconstructed and simulated data, is expected to yield {approximately}300 TB of stored data per year. With this large flow of data, it becomes essential to optimize the automation and reliability associated with the initial phases of data processing.
Research Organization:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
9943
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-7977
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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