Charged-particle tracking in the international Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) will be performed using two solenoidal spectrometers, each instrumented with a tracking detector based on ...350μm diameter scintillating fibres. The design and construction of the trackers is described along with the quality-assurance procedures, photon-detection system, readout electronics, reconstruction and simulation software and the data-acquisition system. Finally, the performance of the MICE tracker, determined using cosmic rays, is presented.
The use of accelerated beams of electrons, protons or ions has furthered the development of nearly every scientific discipline. However, high-energy muon beams of equivalent quality have not yet been ...delivered. Muon beams can be created through the decay of pions produced by the interaction of a proton beam with a target. Such 'tertiary' beams have much lower brightness than those created by accelerating electrons, protons or ions. High-brightness muon beams comparable to those produced by state-of-the-art electron, proton and ion accelerators could facilitate the study of lepton-antilepton collisions at extremely high energies and provide well characterized neutrino beams
. Such muon beams could be realized using ionization cooling, which has been proposed to increase muon-beam brightness
. Here we report the realization of ionization cooling, which was confirmed by the observation of an increased number of low-amplitude muons after passage of the muon beam through an absorber, as well as an increase in the corresponding phase-space density. The simulated performance of the ionization cooling system is consistent with the measured data, validating designs of the ionization cooling channel in which the cooling process is repeated to produce a substantial cooling effect
. The results presented here are an important step towards achieving the muon-beam quality required to search for phenomena at energy scales beyond the reach of the Large Hadron Collider at a facility of equivalent or reduced footprint
.
Searches for lepton-flavor-violating decays of a tau lepton to a lighter mass lepton and a photon have been performed with the entire data set of (963+/-7)x10{6} tau decays collected by the BABAR ...detector near the Upsilon(4S), Upsilon(3S) and Upsilon(2S) resonances. The searches yield no evidence of signals and we set upper limits on the branching fractions of B(tau{+/-}-->e{+/-}gamma)<3.3x10{-8} and B(tau{+/-}-->mu{+/-}gamma)<4.4x10{-8} at 90% confidence level.
The BaBar detector: Upgrades, operation and performance Couderc, F.; Prudent, X.; Groysman, Y. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
11/2013, Letnik:
729, Številka:
C
Journal Article
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The BaBar detector operated successfully at the PEP-II asymmetric e+e− collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory from 1999 to 2008. This report covers upgrades, operation, and performance ...of the collider and the detector systems, as well as the trigger, online and offline computing, and aspects of event reconstruction since the beginning of data taking.
A precise measurement of the cross section of the process e(+)e(-) --> pi(+)pi(-)(gamma) from threshold to an energy of 3 GeV is obtained with the initial state radiation (ISR) method using 232 ...fb(-1) of data collected with the BABAR detector at e(+)e(-) center-of-mass energies near 10.6 GeV. The ISR luminosity is determined from a study of the leptonic process e(+)e(-) --> mu(+)mu(-)gamma(gamma). The leading-order hadronic contribution to the muon magnetic anomaly calculated using the pipi cross section measured from threshold to 1.8 GeV is (514.1 +/- 2.2(stat) +/- 3.1(syst)) x 10(-10).
The Physics of the B Factories Golob, Bostjan; Mannel, Thomas; Bevan, Adrian
The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields,
March 2015, Letnik:
74, Številka:
11
eBook, Journal Article
We search for evidence of a light scalar boson in the radiative decays of the Υ ( 2 S ) and Υ ( 3 S ) resonances: Υ ( 2 S , 3 S ) → γ A 0 , A 0 → μ + μ − . Such a particle appears in extensions of ...the standard model, where a light C P -odd Higgs boson naturally couples strongly to b quarks. We find no evidence for such processes in the mass range 0.212 ≤ m A 0 ≤ 9.3 GeV in the samples of 99 × 10 6 Υ ( 2 S ) and 122 × 10 6 Υ ( 3 S ) decays collected by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II B factory and set stringent upper limits on the effective coupling of the b quark to the A 0 . We also limit the dimuon branching fraction of the η b meson: B ( η b → μ + μ − ) < 0.9 % at 90% confidence level.
We describe a measurement of the time-integrated luminosity of the data collected by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at the Upsilon(4S), Upsilon(3S), and ...Upsilon(2S) resonances and in a continuum region below each resonance. We measure the time-integrated luminosity by counting e+e- --> e+e- and (for the Upsilon(4S) only) e+e- --> mu+mu- candidate events, allowing additional photons in the final state. We use data-corrected simulation to determine the cross sections and reconstruction efficiencies for these processes, as well as the major backgrounds. Due to the large cross sections of e+e- --> e+e- and +e- --> mu+mu-, the statistical uncertainties of the measurement are substantially smaller than the systematic uncertainties. The dominant systematic uncertainties are due to observed differences between data and simulation, as well as uncertainties on the cross sections. For data collected on the Upsilon(3S) and Upsilon(2S) resonances, an additional uncertainty arises due to Upsilon --> e+e- background. For data collected off the Upsilon resonances, we estimate an additional uncertainty due to the time-dependent efficiency variations, which can affect the short off-resonance runs.
We report the results of a search for the bottomonium ground state η b ( 1 S ) in the photon energy spectrum with a sample of ( 109 ± 1 ) million of Υ ( 3 S ) recorded at the Υ ( 3 S ) energy with ...the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B factory at SLAC. We observe a peak in the photon energy spectrum at E γ = 921.2 + 2.1 − 2.8 ( stat ) ± 2.4 ( syst ) MeV with a significance of 10 standard deviations. We interpret the observed peak as being due to monochromatic photons from the radiative transition Υ ( 3 S ) → γ η b ( 1 S ) . This photon energy corresponds to an η b ( 1 S ) mass of 9388.9 + 3.1 − 2.3 ( stat ) ± 2.7 ( syst ) MeV / c 2 . The hyperfine Υ ( 1 S ) - η b ( 1 S ) mass splitting is 71.4 + 2.3 − 3.1 ( stat ) ± 2.7 ( syst ) MeV / c 2 . The branching fraction for this radiative Υ ( 3 S ) decay is estimated to be 4.8 ± 0.5 ( stat ) ± 1.2 ( syst ) × 10 − 4 .
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