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The LHCb trigger strategy and performance
Precise measurements of CP-violating asymmetries, oscillation parameters and branching ratios on numerous B-decay channels will allow an overdetermination of CKM parameters, with possible inconsistencies pointing to physics beyond the Standard Model. In order to achieve this, an experiment capable of triggering on the various decay modes of B-mesons (in particular hadronic modes) is desirable. LHCb [ 1] is an experiment dedicated to such precision studies at the large hadron collider (LHC). It is designed as a forward spectrometer, because BB pairs are expected to be predominantly produced at small polar angles. An overview of the LHCb detector and trigger scheme is shown in Figure 1.
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VELO Geometry Optimisation
New possible layouts of the LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) have been compared with the existing baseline design outlined in the Technical Proposal. Based on a comparison of essential figures of merit, namely vertex resolutions, event selection efficiencies, trigger performance, and technical constraints an updated baseline design is proposed. The new design retains the same number of electronic channels as that in the Technical Proposal, but has an increased number of measuring stations (25 rather than 17) with a reduced inner radius (8mm rather than 10mm).
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The LHCb VELO: status and upgrade developments
The VErtex LOcator (VELO) is the silicon microstrip vertexing and triggering sub-detector of the LHCb experiment. It consists of a series of forward disks with the active region extending to just 8 mm from the LHC beams. The current status of the VELO is presented. Due to the high radiation environment, the VELO may have to be replaced after some years, possibly with new materials. A candidate material is Czochralski silicon. We present here promising new results on the first test beam of a large, high resistivity Czochralski microstrip silicon detector read out with LHC speed electronics. The performance was studied before and after irradiation with high energy protons. A signal to noise of over 20:1 was obtained from the detector and significant charge collection efficiencies were measured at relatively modest voltages after a fluence of 4.3/spl times/10/sup 14/ 1 MeV neutron equivalents (n/sub eq/) per cm/sup 2/. Studies using the Transient Current Technique probed the electric field within MCz test detectors and proved that MCz silicon does not type invert up until a radiation level of at least 5/spl times/10/sup 14/ 24GeV/c p/cm/sup 2/. This would mean the VELO could possibly replace, in a potential upgrade, n/sup +/-on-n DOFZ sensors and the complicated processing involved, for standard p/sup +/-on-n processing with MCz.
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Performance of an irradiated LHCb prototype p-on-n silicon microstrip detector
Abstract A prototype silicon detector for the LHCb experiment has been irradiated non-uniformly with fluences of up to 10 15 p / cm 2 of 24 GeV protons and tested with LHC speed electronics in a test beam. After doses equivalent to one year of operation at the LHC, the detector was operational, and deteriorated after higher doses. The performance of this detector identifies particular risks associated with a p-on-n fine pitch design with a double metal layer.
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Plans for experiments protection at the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), once in operation, will represent approximately a 200-fold increase in stored beam energy with respect to previous high energy colliders. Safe operation will critically rely on machine and experiment protection systems. We describe the general experiment protection strategy against beam failures with some emphasis on silicon vertex detectors of the LHC experiments.
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Helicity structure in low- and intermediate-energy weak interaction
Abstract We report on the status of the measurements of the longitudinal polarization of positrons emitted by polarized 107 In and 12 N nuclei. Present results yield a lower limit of 306 GeV/c 2 (90 % CL) for the mass of a possible W gauge boson with predominantly right-handed couplings, if interpreted in the framework of the manifest left-right symmetric model. In addition, the helicity structure of the weak interaction is discussed on the basis of experimental results at low and intermediate energies in the leptonic, semileptonic and hadronic sectors. Whereas in the minimal manifest left-right symmetric extension of the Standard Model the results from collider experiments are superior to results from other experiments, experiments in the three sectors of the weak interaction yield complementary information on the helicity structure of the interaction if interpreted in general left-right symmetric models.
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Spin-momentum correlations in quasielastic electron scattering from deuterium.
The spin-momentum correlation parameter A(V)(ed) was measured for the 2H-->(e-->,e'p)n reaction for missing momenta up to 350 MeV/c at Q2 = 0.21 (GeV/c)(2) for quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons from vector-polarized deuterium. The data give detailed information about the deuteron spin structure and are in good agreement with the results of microscopic calculations based on realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials and including various spin-dependent reaction mechanism effects. The experiment reveals in a most direct manner the effects of the D state in the deuteron ground-state wave function and shows the importance of isobar configurations for this reaction.
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Scintillation fiber hodoscope for topological triggering
A fast and precise scintillating fiber (SciFi) hodoscope based on KURARAY SciFi and HAMAMATSU multianode H6568 tubes was constructed to be used in DIRAC experiment (PS-212) at CERN for tracking and topological triggering information. The front-end electronics was custom developed to allow on-line discrimination after built-in dynamic cross-talk rejection. Preliminary tests of the detector using more than 300 read-out channels have shown an excellent stability and optimum performance for this system: a uniform detection efficiency of 98%, a 125 μm single hit and ∼0.5 mm two-hit space resolution, 0.6 ns time resolution.
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Measurement of the Real Part of the Forward Amplitude in K- n and K+ n Elastic Scattering at 10-GeV/c and a New K+- n Dispersion Relation
CERN. A NEW DISPERSION RELATION FIT TO ALL EXISTING K+ N AND K- N DATA FROM THRESHOLD TO 150 GEV/C IS GIVEN.