M. Dima Dept. of Theoretical Physics CERN, Sliding VTX Method in Physics and Detector Institute for Nuclear Physics & Engineering Bucharest - Romania
IP Bs0Bs0 K+K+ K - - - Ds-Ds- + + sliding VTX B s 0 D s - + Institute for Nuclear Physics & Engineering Bucharest - Romania + solution - solution ?! … B VTX D VTX Furthering SLD’s Missing p Series … 0 0 BR vis exclusive = % BR vis inclusive = % TOTAL: x 2 faster to m s
Institute for Nuclear Physics & Engineering Bucharest - Romania 2 independent cond.’s: p B point-back M B window simultaneously obsv. real solution !
Institute for Nuclear Physics & Engineering Bucharest - Romania Rare ambiguities: … what to do ?
Institute for Nuclear Physics & Engineering Bucharest - Romania No-detector errors: sliding step = 50 m TO DO: Study detector induced resolution
IP D -D - Institute for Nuclear Physics & Engineering Bucharest - Romania Lepton Source PID Calibration Hard-to-Get PID Cal. Source: very clean (precise VTX’s) large momentum range both e / .... and K / Bd 0Bd 0 B VTX D VTX + + K -K - l -l - l + + B d 0 D - + - + + + - - 2 x M l / week of running M K / week of running M / week of running ! mis-ID syst.’s PID eff.’s tag-ID eff.’s
IP D 0D 0 Institute for Nuclear Physics & Engineering Bucharest - Romania Lepton Source PID Calibration … similar (-42% yield) TOTAL: Bd 0Bd 0 B VTX D VTX + + K -K - l +l + l B d 0 D* - + - + + + - - 2 x M l / week of running M K / week of running M / week of running ! mis-ID syst.’s PID eff.’s tag-ID eff.’s - -
IP - - J/ , - + Institute for Nuclear Physics & Engineering Bucharest - Romania Proton Source PID Calibration p Proton source: simple + very clean J/ reasonable yield (CDF) VTX + + p
IP - - K - - K - Institute for Nuclear Physics & Engineering Bucharest - Romania VTX p-K- Source PID Calibration p Excellent PID Cal. Source: source = p, K, simple + very clean CDF = 10 vis / pb -1 (trig. ?) large momentum range 2 x kp / wk running … s phys. ? - - VTX sliding VTX VELO trk c = 24.6 mm
IP - - - - 0 0 - - - 0 - Institute for Nuclear Physics & Engineering Bucharest - Romania 0 0 VTX VTX Proton Source PID Calibration VTX 00 p 2 independent cond.’s: 2 way computation p 0 , mass-windows … graduate project learn to do physics sliding VTX VELO trk c = 24.6 mm