Publication Date

1994

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Kaplan, Daniel M. (Daniel Moshe)

Degree Name

M.S. (Master of Science)

Legacy Department

Department of Physics

LCSH

Muons; Quarks

Abstract

An experiment in which an optical trigger device for the detection of muons from B-meson decays was tested using a muon telescope at Fermilab Experiment E789. A data set of 140,000 muon events was examined, recorded from January 8 through January 15, 1992 in three separate data-collection runs. The data was filtered and fit, using a least-squares analysis, to correspond to linear trajectories through a piece of MgF2 crystal. An analysis was done on the data to relate muon incident angle on the crystal to detected intensity of internally reflected Cherenkov radiation and to examine the sharpness of the resulting curve. A curve resulted which showed a much more gradual increase then was expected. Computer modelling indicated that the observed curve was the result of dispersion as various wavelengths of Cherenkov radiation became internally reflected at different incident angles coupled with the variable spectral response of the photomultiplier tube.

Comments

Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-45)

Extent

iv, 45 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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