Publication Date

1992

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Brown, Charles N. (Professor of physics)

Degree Name

M.S. (Master of Science)

Legacy Department

Department of Physics

LCSH

Neutron-proton interactions; Cross sections (Nuclear physics); Collisions (Nuclear physics)

Abstract

This study presents the results of a measurement of the B cross section in conjunction with Fermilab experiment E772. In this fixed-target experiment an 800 GeV proton beam interacted with a thick copper absorber. The trigger was set to detect muon multiplets emerging from the dump. Production rates and acceptances of trimuon and like-sign dimuon events were used to calculate the B cross section on the 1-4 GeV ρτ range. Experimental acceptances were found to be highly model-dependent and these model uncertainties were explored. The dimuon data was found to support a 350 nb upper limit for σ[subββ] with a large model uncertainty of order 10.

Comments

Includes bibliographical references (leaf [90])

Extent

[90] pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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In Copyright

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NIU theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from Huskie Commons for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without the written permission of the authors.

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