利用次级强子相互作用测绘 LHCb 顶点探测器中的材料分布
仪器与探测器
2018-06-19 v2 高能物理 - 实验
摘要
精确了解 LHCb 顶点探测器（VELO）中材料的位置，对于减少寻找长寿命奇异粒子时的本底以及识别源自 beauty 夸克和 charm 夸克的喷流至关重要。利用束流-气体碰撞中产生的强子的次级相互作用，可以测绘 VELO 中的材料位置。利用该材料分布图，连同重建次级顶点及其组成径迹的性质，可以对次级顶点源自材料相互作用的假设赋予一个 值。本文利用光子转化为双缪子的过程对该流程进行了验证。
引用
@article{arxiv.1803.07466,
title = {Mapping the material in the LHCb vertex locator using secondary hadronic interactions},
author = {M. Alexander and W. Barter and A. Bay and L. J. Bel and M. van Beuzekom and G. Bogdanova and S. Borghi and T. J. V. Bowcock and E. Buchanan and J. Buytaert and K. Carvalho Akiba and S. Chen and V. Coco and P. Collins and A. Crocombe and F. Da Cunha Marinho and E. Dall'Occo and S. De Capua and C. T. Dean and F. Dettori and D. Dossett and K. Dreimanis and G. Dujany and L. Eklund and T. Evans and M. Ferro-Luzzi and M. Gersabeck and T. Gershon and T. Hadavizadeh and J. Harrison and K. Hennessy and W. Hulsbergen and D. Hutchcroft and P. Ilten E. Jans and M. John and P. Kopciewicz and P. Koppenburg and G. Lafferty and T. Latham and A. Leflat and M. W. Majewski and R. McNulty and J. Mylroie-Smith and A. Oblakowska-Mucha and C. Parkes and A. Pearce and A. Poluektov and A. Pritchard and W. Qian and S. Redford and S. Richards and K. Rinnert and E. Rodrigues and G. Sarpis and M. Schiller and H. Schindler and M. Smith and N. A. Smith and T. Szumlak and J. J. Velthuis and V. Volkov and C. Wallace and H. M. Wark and A. Webber and M. R. J. Williams and M. Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07466},
year = {2018}
}
备注
All figures and tables are available at https://lhcbproject.web.cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/LHCbProjectPublic/LHCb-DP-2018-002.html