Final report for the 1996 DOE grant supporting research at the SLAC/LBNL/LLNL B factory
- Prairie View A and M Univ., TX (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States). Particle Physics Div.
This final report discusses Department of Energy-supported research funded through Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) which was performed as part of a collaboration between LLNL and Prairie View A and M University to develop part of the BaBar detector at the SLAC B Factory. This work focuses on the Instrumented Flux Return (IFR) subsystem of BaBar and involves a full range of detector development activities: computer simulations of detector performance, creation of reconstruction algorithms, and detector hardware R and D. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a leading role in the IFR subsystem and has established on-site computing and detector facilities to conduct this research. By establishing ties with the existing LLNL Research Collaboration Program and leveraging LLNL resources, the experienced Prairie View group was able to quickly achieve a more prominent role within the BaBar collaboration and make significant contributions to the detector design. In addition, this work provided the first entry point for Historically Black Colleges and Universities into the B Factory collaboration, and created an opportunity to train a new generation of minority students at the premier electron-positron high energy physics facility in the US.
- Research Organization:
- Prairie View A and M Univ., TX (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG03-96SF21023
- OSTI ID:
- 548732
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SF/21023-T1; ON: DE98001197; TRN: 98:000975
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 8 Aug 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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