54051753
New Measurements of Upsilon Spin Alignment at the Tevatron
We describe a new analysis of {Upsilon}(nS) {yields} {mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -} decays collected in p{bar p} collisions with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. This analysis measures the angular distributions of the final state muons in the {Upsilon} rest frame, providing new information about {Upsilon} production polarization. We find the angular distributions to be nearly isotropic up to {Upsilon} p{sub T} of 40 GeV/c, consistent with previous measurements by CDF, but inconsistent with results obtained by the D0 experiment. The results are compared with recent NLO calculations based on color-singlet matrix elements and non-relativistic QCD with color-octet matrix elements.
117875651
Studies of P Wave Charm Meson Production at LEP with the OPAL Detector
47564335
Level-2 Calorimeter Trigger Upgrade at CDF
The CDF Run II level-2 calorimeter trigger is implemented in hardware and is based on a simple algorithm used in Run I. This system has worked well for Run II at low luminosity. However, as the Tevatron instantaneous luminosity increases, the limitation due to the simple algorithm starts to become clear. In this paper, we will present an upgrade path to the level-2 calorimeter trigger system at CDF. This upgrade approach is based on the Pulsar board, a general purpose VME board developed at CDF and used for upgrading both the level-2 tracking and the Level-2 global decision crate. This paper will describe the design, hardware and software implementation, as well as the advantages of this approach over the existing system.
106619516
Influence of luminosity leveling on the CDF-II B-Physics program
The effective bandwidth of the CDF-II level 1 trigger is approximately 25 kHz. Some of this bandwidth is used to record events that form the data sets used by the high p{sub T} physics analyses. The remaining bandwidth is used by triggers that are sensitive to hadronic B decays and provide one of the most important samples used for the study of B{sub s}{sup 0} mixing. At high luminosities, the hadronic B triggers have rates that greatly exceed the available bandwidth. Rather than incur large dead-times associated with these excessive rates, these B triggers are prescaled to limit the total trigger rate to the effective level 1 trigger bandwidth. The prescales are dynamically adjusted as the store progresses so that all of the bandwidth that is not used for the high p{sub T} physics program is used to record hadronic B triggers. In principle, the luminosity could be held at a more constant level throughout the store in such a way that the integrated luminosity would be the same as that obtained from a normal store. It has been suggested that this would allow B triggers to be recorded with lower prescales and consequently with higher B{sub s}{sup 0} signal efficiencies. This note describes a parametric model of the high p{sub T} and hadronic B triggers used by CDF and compares the yields of reconstructed B{sub s}{sup 0} decays that would result with and without luminosity leveling.
121659740
The CDF level 2 calorimetric trigger upgrade
Abstract CDF II upgraded the calorimeter trigger to cope with the higher detector occupancy due to the increased Tevatron instantaneous luminosity ( ∼ 2.8 × 10 32 cm - 2 s - 1 ) . While the original system was implemented in custom hardware and provided to the L2 trigger a limited-quality jet clustering performed using a reduced resolution measurement of the transverse energy in the calorimeter trigger towers, the upgraded system provides offline-quality jet reconstruction of the full resolution calorimeter data. This allows to keep better under control the dependence of the trigger rates on the instantaneous luminosity and to improve the efficiency and purity of the trigger selections. The upgraded calorimeter trigger uses the general purpose VME board Pulsar, developed at CDF II and already widely used to upgrade the L2 tracking and L2 decision systems. A battery of Pulsars is used to merge and send the calorimeter data to the L2 CPUs, where software-implemented algorithms perform offline-like clustering. In this paper we review the design and the performance of the upgraded system.
117932304
Tevatron bunch length studies at CDF
A luminous interaction region can be described by the distribution in (x, y, z) over which p{bar p} interactions are observed in a detector. The spatial size of this distribution can be written in terms of expressions that involve only combinations of the proton and anti-proton bunch sizes. Hence, it is not possible to determine the sizes of the proton and anti-proton bunches independently by fitting the distribution of (x, y, z) from the recorded events. If, in addition to the coordinates (x, y, z) at which p{bar p} interactions occur, the times at which the interactions took place are also measured, then it becomes possible to measure the lengths of the proton and anti-proton bunches separately. This sensitivity is due to a correlation between z and t that arises from the fact that the proton and anti-proton bunches travel in opposite directions. The derivation presented in section 2 quantifies this correlation, resulting in an expression for the probability density as a function of z and t for p{bar p} interactions. By fitting the distributions observed at CDF using this model, we measure the lengths of the proton and anti-proton bunches at times throughout several Tevatron stores. From this analysismore » the evolution of the bunch lengths can be studied. We attempt to correlate these with other measures of the bunch length obtained using different experimental techniques.« less
117922116
Measurement of analyzing powers for the reaction p(pol.) + ch-2 at p(p) = 1.75-GeV/c - 5.3-GeV/c
Abstract We report a new measurement of analyzing powers for the reaction p ⇒ + CH 2 → one charged particle +X, at proton momenta of 1.75, 3.8, 4.5 and 5.3 GeV / c . These results extend the existing data basis, necessary for proton polarimetry at intermediate energy, and confirm the feasibility of a large acceptance polarimeter based on this process. Particular attention was devoted to the investigation of the optimal target thickness and of the useful angular range. The experiment is performed at the accelerator complex of the JINR-VBLHE (Dubna).
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Measurement of tensor polarization of deuterons from 3He->d+p breakup at momenta from 4.60 to 5.66 GeV/c
The tensor polarization p{sub 20} of deuterons emitted in the {sup 1}H(3{sup 3}He,d{leftrightarrow})X reaction at 0{sup o} in the laboratory system was measured at the Saturne National Laboratory in Saclay using the SPES-4 spectrometer with the HYPOM polarimeter located downstream from its focal plane. The momentum of the detected deuterons was kept fixed at 3.77 GeV/c, while the momentum of the {sup 3}He beam was varied from 4.60 to 5.66 GeV/c, thus providing a range of internal momenta k of the deuteron in {sup 3}He from 0 up to 0.4 GeV/c. The data obtained are compared with theoretical predictions.
123029644
Observation of short-lived particles produced in high energy neutrino interactions
Abstract Examination of a sample of 89 high-energy, neutrino-induced dilepton events produced in the Fermilab 15 ft bubble chamber has resulted in the direct observation of the production and visible semi-leptonic decay of short-lived particles. One charged decay, two neutral decays, and one decay candidate of undetermined charge are found. Assuming these events and the remaining dilepton signal result from D meson decays, we obtain τ D + = 2.5 −1.5 +3.5 × 10 −13 s and τ D 0 = 3.5 −1.7 +3.5 × 10 −13 s, using a maximum likelihood analysis.
123574900
Measurement of recoil proton polarizations in the electrodisintegration of deuterium by polarized electrons
Abstract In order to test modern theories of two-nucleon bound and scattering states, we have measured the spin polarization of ejectile protons in the electrodisintegration reaction d( e → ,e′ p → )n . Compared with spin-averaged observations, these observables offer the potential of enhanced sensitivity to details of the reaction process. The experiment was carried out in quasielastic kinematics ( q μ q μ =−2m p ω=−0.38 GeV 2 /c 2 ). Protons were detected at two angles corresponding to neutron recoil momenta p r of 0 and 100 MeV/c. Full nonrelativistic calculations of the polarization transfer components s l and s t , including leading order relativistic contributions, describe our measurements well, but calculations of the induced polarization s n at p r =100 MeV/c underpredict the experimental result.
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The lead-glass electromagnetic calorimeters for the magnetic spectrometers in Hall C at Jefferson Lab
Abstract The electromagnetic calorimeters of the various magnetic spectrometers in Hall C at Jefferson Lab are presented. For the existing High Momentum Spectrometer (HMS) and Short Orbit Spectrometer (SOS), design considerations, relevant construction information, and comparisons of simulated and experimental results are included. The energy resolution of the HMS and SOS calorimeters is better than σ / E ∼ 6 % / E and pion/electron ( π / e ) separation of about 100:1 has been achieved in the energy range of 1–5 GeV. Good agreement has been observed between the experimental and simulated energy resolutions, but simulations systematically exceed experimentally determined π − suppression factors by close to a factor of two. For the Super High Momentum Spectrometer (SHMS), presently under construction, details on the design and accompanying GEANT4 simulation efforts are given. The anticipated performance of the new calorimeter is predicted over the full momentum range of the SHMS. Good electron/hadron separation is anticipated by combining the energy deposited in an initial (preshower) calorimeter layer with the total energy deposited in the calorimeter.