The DØ experiment enjoyed a very successful data-collection run at the Fermilab Tevatron collider between 1992 and 1996. Since then, the detector has been upgraded to take advantage of improvements to the Tevatron and to enhance its physics capabilities. We describe the new elements of the detector, including the silicon microstrip tracker, central fiber tracker, solenoidal magnet, preshower detectors, forward muon detector, and forward proton detector. The uranium/liquid-argon calorimeters and central muon detector, remaining from Run I, are discussed briefly. We also present the associated electronics, triggering, and data acquisition systems, along with the design and implementation of software specific to DØ.
We describe the design, construction and performance of the upgraded DØ muon system for Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. Significant improvements have been made to the major subsystems of the DØ muon detector: trigger scintillation counters, tracking detectors, and electronics. The Run II central muon detector has a new scintillation counter system inside the iron toroid and an improved scintillation counter system outside the iron toroid. In the forward region, new scintillation counter and tracking systems have been installed. Extensive shielding has been added in the forward region. A large fraction of the muon system electronics is also new.
We have measured the differential production cross sections as a function of scaled momentum x p ϭ2 p/E c.m. of the identified hadron species ϩ , K ϩ , K 0 , K* 0 , , p, ⌳ 0 , and of the corresponding antihadron species in inclusive hadronic Z 0 decays, as well as separately for Z 0 decays into light (u, d, s), c and b flavors. Clear flavor dependences are observed, consistent with expectations based upon previously measured production and decay properties of heavy hadrons. These results were used to test the QCD predictions of Gribov and Lipatov, the predictions of QCD in the modified leading logarithm approximation with the ansatz of local parton-hadron duality, and the predictions of three fragmentation models. The ratios of production of different hadron species were also measured as a function of x p and were used to study the suppression of strange meson, strange and non-strange baryon, and vector meson production in the jet fragmentation process. The light-flavor results provide improved tests of the above predictions, as they remove the contribution of heavy hadron production and decay from that of the rest of the fragmentation process. In addition we have compared hadron and antihadron production as a function of x p in light quark ͑as opposed to antiquark͒ jets. Differences are observed at high x p , providing direct evidence that higher-momentum hadrons are more likely to contain a primary quark or antiquark. The differences for pseudoscalar and vector kaons provide new measurements of strangeness suppression for high-x p fragmentation products. ͓S0556-2821͑99͒06101-9͔
A data-driven energy ecan in the immediate vicinity of the 7 pair production tbreshold has been performed using the Beijing Spectrometer at the Beijing Electron-PositronCollider. Approximately 5 pb-' of data, distributed over 12 ecan points, have been collected. A previous maee value for the 7 lepton, obtained using only the ep final state, has been published. In this paper, the final BES result on the maes measurement is presented. The analysis is based on the combined data from the ee, ep, eh, VW, ph, and hh final states, where h denotes a charged ?( or K. A maximum likelihood fit to the r pair production cross section data yields the value rn, = 1776.96+~:~~!~:~~ MeV. PACS number(s): 14.60.Fg, 13.1O.+q
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