The Search for Charm, Beauty, and Truth at High Energies

by Gianpaolo Bellini, S.C. Ting

Overview

The search for flavored particles is one of the most;interesting topics in high energy physics. Many experimental groups are working on this subject, but the solution to many of the problems are still open. Therefore it seemed very useful that people interested in these problems can probe then in a discussion. This is the aim of this Europhysics Study Conference, which has been organized both as a conference and a workshop. The present experimental knowledge on branching ratios, life- times, cross sections and production mechanisms of flavored parti- cles has been presented in general talks and discussed in the morn- ing sessions, as well as the bases of the theoretical ideas and pre- dictions. The experimental methods: visual detectors, live targets, high resolution vertex detectors, special triggers of search on fla- vored particles, have been treated in the afternoon panels. These proceedings contain the talks and panel discussions with the exception of a few small contributions to the panels and talks by C. Baltay ("Search for charm and new flavors with bubble cham- bers"), G. Alteralle ("Lifetime of charm and new flavors"), P. Monacelli ("Results on charm production from a CERN Beam Dump exper- iment"), A. Capone ("Experimental study of same-sign dimunon events produced in neutrino and anti-neutrino beams").

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461296577
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Series:	Polymer Science and Technology Series , #9
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
Pages:	585
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

Session I Search For Charm and Beauty With e+ e- Beams.- Heavy Flavour Production in e+ e- Annihilation.- Mark-J Results on Hadron and Inclusive Muon Production and the Electroweak Interactions of Quarks.- Recent Results from JADE.- Recent Results from TASS0.- Results from CESR.- Session II Search For Charm and Beauty at Fermilab.- Charm and Beauty Photoproduction at Fermilab.- Prompt Neutrino Experiment on Charm and Other Flavours.- Prompt Production of Neutrino by 400 GeV Protons on Tungsten: First REsults from Fermilab E613.- Session III Search For Charm With Bubble Chambers.- Recent Results from the Experiment NA16.- Photo-Production of Charmed Particles by 19.5 GeV Gammas.- Session IV Panel on Use of Visual Detectors in the Search for Charm and Other Flavours.- Chairman’s Introduction.- Photographic emulsions Versus Bubble Chambers in Charm and Beauty Searches.- High Resolution Bubble Chamers.- Holography in Small Bubble Chambers.- Scanning Holograms.- A Measuring Device for Holograms from Large Volume Bubble Chambers.- Topological Background on Charmed and Beauty Particle Pairs Produced in High Energy Hadron Interactions in Nuclear Emulsions.- Session V Lifetime Measurements.- Measurement of Charmed Particle Lifetime.- Lifetime of Charmed Particles Protoproduced in Nuclear Emulsions.- Session VI Panel on Live Targets for Lifetime Measurements.- Chairman’s Introduction.- Lifetime measurements of D± -Mesons with a Silicon Live Target.- Solid State Telescopes for Lifetime Measurements.- Performance and Application in High Energy Physics of Passive Ion Implanted Silicon Detectors.- Hybrid Preamplifier for Solid State Detectors on High Energy Experiments.- Silicon Detectors for the NA14 Photoproduction Experiment at CERN.- Status Report on Two New Vertex Detectors: The Scintillation Camera and the Microchannel Plate.- Session VII Production Cross Sections of Charm and New Flavours.- Production Cross Sections of Heavy Flavours on Protons.- Photon and Hadron Production of Open Heavy Flavours.- Heavy Quarks in Hadronic Collisions.- Production of Heavy Flavours in Muon Iron Interaction.- Hadronic Production of Heavy Flavours.- Session VIII Panel on High Resolution Vertex Detectors to Search for Charm and Other Flavours.- Silicon Microstrip Detectors, a New Tool for Charm Physics.- Resistive Charge Partititon with MESD.- A High Resolution Telescope Using CCD Photodiodes Arrays.- Silicon Detector Electronics for H.E. Physics Experiments.- Session IX Search for Heavy Flavours.- Heavy Flavour Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions.- The Masses of Heavy Flavoured Hadrons.- Tests of the t Quark Mass From B Meson Decays.- Beauty Experiments at the SPS.- Session X Panel on Special Triggers to Search for Charm and Heavy Flavours.- Hadronic Production of Prompt Muons.- A Study of Charm Production in the Strong Interactions Using a Prompt Muon Trigger.- Triggering for Charm, Beauty, and Truth.- Muon Triggers in Search for Charm and Beauty in Hybrid Emulsion Experiments.- Possibility of Trigger for Short Lived States.- Trigger on Charm and Beauty for a Hybrid Experiment in the—? Spectrometer.- Session XI.- Conclusions.- Participants.