The straw tube technology for the LHCb outer tracking system Bachmann, S.; Bagaturia, I.; Deppe, H. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
12/2004, Volume:
535, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
For the outer tracking system of the LHCb spectrometer 53.760 straws of 2.5
m length will be used. They are arranged in detector modules of 5
m length and 0.34
m width. The envisaged spatial ...resolution over the entire active area is 200
μ
m resulting in stringent requirements on the accuracy for the module construction.
In this paper we discuss the optimisation of the straws, design and construction of detector modules. The long-term operation properties of straws in two different counting gases, Ar/CO
2
(70/30) and Ar/CO
2
/CF
4
(75/10/15), are compared.
Using the ARGUS detector at the
e
+
e
− storage ring DORIS II, we have searched for the real and imaginary part of the electric dipole formfactor
d
τ
of the
τ lepton in the production of
τ pairs at
q
...2=100
GeV
2
. This is the first direct measurement of this
CP
violating formfactor. We applied the method of optimised observables which takes into account all available information on the observed
τ decay products. No evidence for
CP
violation was found, and we derive the following results:
Re(d
τ)=(1.6±1.9)·10
−16
e
cm
and
Im(d
τ)=(−0.2±0.8)·10
−16
e
cm
, where statistical and systematic errors have been combined.
We report the observation of the decay $B^{-} \rightarrow D^{(*)+}_{s} K^{-} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\ell}$ based on $342 \mathrm {\,fb}^{-1}}$ of data collected at the $\Y4S$ resonance with the BABAR ...detector at the PEP-II $e^{+}e^{-}$ storage rings at SLAC. A simultaneous fit to three $D^{+}_{s}$ decay chains is performed to extract the signal yield from measurements of the squared missing mass in the B meson decay. We observe the decay $B^{-} \rightarrow D^{(*)+}_{s} K^{-} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\ell}$ with a significance greater than five standard deviations (including systematic uncertainties) and measure its branching fraction to be $\BR(B^{-} \rightarrow D^{(*)+}_{s} K^{-} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\ell}) = 6.13^{+1.04}_{-1.03}(\mathrm{stat.})\pm0.43(\mathrm{syst.}) \pm 0.51(\BR(D_{s}))\times10^{-4}$, where the last error reflects the limited knowledge of the $D_{s}$ branching fractions.
We report a direct measurement of $D^0-overline{D}^0$ mixing parameters through a time-dependent amplitude analysis of the Dalitz plots of $D^0 \rightarrow K_S^0 \pi^+ \pi^-$ and, for the first time, ...$D^0 \rightarrow K_S^0 K^+ K^-$ decays. The low-momentum pion $\pi_s^+$ in the decay $D^{*+} \rightarrow D^0 \pi_s^+$ identifies the flavor of the neutral $D$ meson at its production. Using 468.5 fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ colliding-beam data recorded near $\sqrt s = 10.6$~GeV by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy collider at SLAC, we measure the mixing parameters $x= 1.6 \pm 2.3 ({\rm stat.}) \pm 1.2 ({\rm syst.}) \pm 0.8 ({\rm model}) \times10^{-3}$, and $y= 5.7 \pm 2.0 ({\rm stat.}) \pm 1.3 ({\rm syst.}) \pm 0.7 ({\rm model}) \times 10^{-3}$. These results disfavor the no-mixing hypothesis with a significance of 1.9 standard deviations, and provide the best measurement to date of $x$.
We report the measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa CP-violating angle $\gamma$ through a Dalitz plot analysis of neutral $D$ meson decays to $K_S^0 \pi^+ \pi^-$ and $K_S^0 K^+ K^-$ produced ...in the processes $B^\mp \to D K^\mp$, $B^\mp \to D^{*} K^\mp$ with $D^* \to D \pi^0,D \gamma$, and $B^\mp \to D K^{*\mp}$ with $K^{*\mp} \to K_S^0 \pi^\mp$, using 468 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $e^+e^-$ collider at SLAC. We measure $\gamma=(68 \pm 14 \pm 4 \pm 3)^\circ$ ({\rm mod $180^\circ$}), where the first error is statistical, the second is the experimental systematic uncertainty and the third reflects the uncertainty in the description of the neutral $D$ decay amplitudes. This result is inconsistent with $\gamma = 0$ (no direct CP violation) with a significance of 3.5 standard deviations.
A maximum likelihood analysis of ARGUS data on two-photon production of
π
+
π
+
π
0
π
0
π
−
π
− is presented. A small fraction of events is due to the production of omega pairs. The
γγ →
ωω cross ...section has its maximum value close to threshold.
Using the ARGUS detector at the e
+e
− storage ring DORIS II at DESY, we have searched for decays
b →
s
gluon through full reconstruction of a whole event. Two B
B
decays were found with one of B ...meson decaying into a final state without charmed particles. We also obtained an upper limit of
Br(B
+ →
τ
+
ν
τ
) of 1.04% at 90%
CL.
Using the detector ARGUS at the
e
+
e
− storage ring DORIS II at DESY, we have observed the decays
Λ
c
+ →
Ξ
−
K
+
π
+ and
Λ
c
+ → Ξ
∗0K
+
and obtained evidence for the decay
Ξ
c
0 →
ΛK
s
0. All ...three of these decays are of interest as they provide information about
W-exchange processes. The products of cross sections and branching ratios for
Λ
c
+ →
Ξ
−
K
+
π
+ and
Λ
c
+ → Ξ
∗0K
+
are (1.7±0.3±0.3) pb and (0.6±0.2±0.1) pb, respectively, which implies that (35±17) % of the
Ξ
−
K
+
π
+ final state is generated through a two-body decay via intermediate
W-exchange. The product of production cross section and branching ratio for
Ξ
c
0 →
Λ
K
s
0 is (2.1 ± 1.0 ± 0.6) pb.
The straw tube technology for the LHCb outer tracking system BACHMANN, S; BAGATURIA, I; DEPPE, H ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
12/2004, Volume:
535, Issue:
1-2
Journal Article
The design and construction of the BaBar electromagnetic calorimeter are reviewed. Recent results on the expected sensitivity of the CsI(TI) to radiation damage are discussed. The performance of the ...calorimeter in the first PEP-II run is presented. Particular emphasis is placed on operational experience and the measured degradation due to radiation damage. Correlation of radiation damage with the dose recorded in a novel large-scale array of radiation sensitive FETs are presented. The consequences for the long-term performance of a CsI(TI) calorimeter operating in a high background environment are discussed.
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