Medium-Energy Antiproton Physics with the Antiproton Annihilation Spectrometer (TApAS*) at Fermilab

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/992259· OSTI ID:992259

Bartoszek, Larry ^[1]; Piacentino, Giovanni M. ^[2]; Phillips, Thomas J. ^[3]; Apollinari, Giorgio ^[4]; Broemmelsiek, Daniel R. ^[4]; Brown, Charles N. ^[4]; Christian, David C. ^[4]; Derwent, Paul; Gollwitzer, Keith ^[4]; Hahn, Alan ^[4]; Papadimitriou, Vaia ^[4]; Stancari, Giulio ^[4]; Stancari, Michelle ^[4]; Stefanski, Ray ^[4]; Volk, James T. ^[4]; Werkema, Steven ^[4]; Wester, Willam ^[4]; White, Herman B. ^[4]; Yeh, G. P. ^[4]; Baldini, Wander ^[5] ; Jackson, Gerald P. ^[6]; Lau, Kwong ^[7]; Kaplan, Daniel M. ^[8]; Torun, Yagmur ^[8]; White, Christopher G. ^[9]

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1. Bartoszek Engineering, Aurora, IL (United States)
2. Univ. of Cassino (Italy)
3. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
4. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
5. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Ferrara (Italy)
6. Hbar Technologies, Chicago, IL (United States)
7. Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)
8. Illinois Inst. of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States)
9. Illinois Inst. of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States). et al.

We propose to assemble a cost-effective, yet powerful, solenoidal magnetic spectrometer for antiproton-annihilation events and use it at the Fermilab Antiproton Accumulator to measure the charm production cross section, study rare hyperon decays, search for hyperon CP asymmetry, and precisely measure the properties of several charmonium and nearby states. Should the charm production cross section be as large as some have proposed, we will also be able to measure D{sup 0}-{bar D}{sup 0} mixing with high precision and discover (or sensitively limit) charm CP violation. The experiment will be carried out by an international collaboration, with installation occurring during the accelerator downtime following the completion of the Tevatron run, and with funding largely from university research grants. The experiment will require some four years of running time. As possibly the sole hadron experiment in progress at Fermilab during that time, it will play an important role in maintaining a broad particle-physics program at Fermilab and in the U.S.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 992259
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PROPOSAL-0986; TRN: US1007774
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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