The SOUDAN 2 detector: The design and construction of the tracking calorimeter modules

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 376:1 (1996) 36-48

Authors:

WWM Allison, GJ Alner, I Ambats, DS Ayres, LJ Balka, GD Barr, WL Barrett, D Benjamine, C Bode, PM Border, CB Brooks, JH Cobb, DJA Cockerill, K Coover, RJ Cotton, H Courant, BB Dahlin, U DasGupta, JW Dawson, DM Demuth, VW Edwards, B Ewen, TH Fields, C Garcia-Garcia, HM Gallagher, RH Giles, GL Giller, MC Goodman, RN Gray, S Heppelmann, N Hill, JH Hoftiezer, DJ Jankowski, K Johns, T Joyce, T Kafka, SMS Kasahara, LM Kirby-Gallagher, J Kochocki, W Leeson, PJ Litchfield, NP Longley, FV Lopez, MJ Lowe, WA Mann, ML Marshak, EN May, D Maxam, L McMaster, R Milburn, WH Miller, CP Minor, N Mondal, L Mualem, A Napier, EM Nelson, R Nickson, W Oliver, GF Pearce, DH Perkins, EA Peterson, LE Price, DM Roback, DB Rosen, K Ruddick, B Saitta, DJ Schmid, J Schlereth, J Schneps, MH Schub, RV Seidlein, PD Shield, MA Shupe, S Spear, A Stassinakis, N Sundaralingam, MA Thomson, JL Thron, V Vassiliev, G Villaume, SP Wakely, D Wall, EWG Wallis, L Weems, SJ Werkema, N West, U Wielgosz, CA Woods, S Yarker

Abstract:

SOUDAN 2 is a 960-ton tracking calorimeter which has been constructed to search for nucleon decay and other phenomena. The full detector consists of 224 calorimeter modules each weighing 4.3 tons. The design and construction of the modules are described. The modules consist of finely segmented iron instrumented with 1 m long drift tubes of 15 mm internal diameter. The tubes enable three spatial coordinates and dE/dx to be recorded for charged particles traversing the tubes.

Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current B Meson Decays in pp炉 Collisions at 鈭歴=1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 76:25 (1996) 4675-4680

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, C Anway-Wiese, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, J Bao, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, E Barzi, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Benlloch, J Bensinger, D Benton, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, A Bhatti, K Biery, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, A Bodek, W Bokhari, V Bolognesi, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, J Cammerata, C Campagnari, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, Y Cen, F Cervelli, HY Chao, J Chapman, M-T Cheng, G Chiarelli, T Chikamatsu, CN Chiou, L Christofek, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, C Couyoumtzelis, D Crane, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, JD Cunningham, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Delchamps, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, B Denby, M Deninno, PF Derwent, T Devlin, JR Dittmann, S Donati, J Done, T Dorigo, A Dunn, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, JE Elias, R Ely, E Engels, D Errede, S Errede, Q Fan, I Fiori, B Flaugher, GW Foster, M Franklin, M Frautschi, J Freeman, J Friedman, TA Fuess, Y Fukui, S Funaki, G Gagliardi, S Galeotti, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, S Geer, DW Gerdes, P Giannetti, N Giokaris, P Giromini, L Gladney, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Gonzalez, A Gordon, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, H Grassmann, L Groer, C Grosso-Pilcher, G Guillian, RS Guo, C Haber, E Hafen, SR Hahn, R Hamilton, R Handler, RM Hans, K Hara, AD Hardman, B Harral, RM Harris, SA Hauger, J Hauser, C Hawk, E Hayashi, J Heinrich, KD Hoffman, M Hohlmann, C Holck, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, A H枚lscher, S Hong, G Houk, P Hu, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, J Hylen, H Ikeda, M Incagli, J Incandela, G Introzzi, J Iwai, Y Iwata, H Jensen, U Joshi, RW Kadel, E Kajfasz, T Kamon, T Kaneko, K Karr, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, L Keeble, K Kelley, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, P Kesten, D Kestenbaum, RM Keup, H Keutelian, F Keyvan, B Kharadia, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, L Kirsch, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, S Kopp, K Kordas, W Koska, E Kovacs, W Kowald, M Krasberg, J Kroll, M Kruse, T Kuwabara, SE Kuhlmann, E Kuns, AT Laasanen, N Labanca, S Lammel, JI Lamoureux, T LeCompte, S Leone, JD Lewis, P Limon, M Lindgren, TM Liss, N Lockyer, O Long, C Loomis, M Loreti, J Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, J Lys, K Maeshima, A Maghakian, P Maksimovic, M Mangano, J Mansour, M Mariotti, JP Marriner, A Martin, JAJ Matthews, R Mattingly, P McIntyre, P Melese, A Menzione, E Meschi, S Metzler, C Miao, G Michail, R Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, H Mitsushio, T Miyamoto, S Miyashita, Y Morita, J Mueller, A Mukherjee, T Muller, P Murat, H Nakada, I Nakano, C Nelson, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, M Ninomiya, L Nodulman, SH Oh, KE Ohl, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, M Okabe, T Okusawa, R Oliver, J Olsen, C Pagliarone, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, SP Pappas, S Park, A Parri, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, A Perazzo, L Pescara, MD Peters, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, M Pillai, KT Pitts, R Plunkett, L Pondrom, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, K Ragan, A Ribon, F Rimondi, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, J Romano, L Rosenson, R Roser, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, A Sansoni, L Santi, H Sato, V Scarpine, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, A Scribano, S Segler, S Seidel, Y Seiya, G Sganos, A Sgolacchia, MD Shapiro, NM Shaw, Q Shen, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, J Skarha, K Sliwa, FD Snider, T Song, J Spalding, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, L Stanco, J Steele, A Stefanini, K Strahl, J Strait, R Str枚hmer, D Stuart, G Sullivan, A Soumarokov, K Sumorok, J Suzuki, T Takada, T Takahashi, T Takano, K Takikawa, N Tamura, F Tartarelli, W Taylor, PK Teng, Y Teramoto, S Tether, D Theriot, TL Thomas, R Thun, M Timko, P Tipton, A Titov, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, J Tonnison, JF de Troconiz, S Truitt, J Tseng, N Turini, T Uchida, N Uemura, F Ukegawa, G Unal, SC van den Brink, S Vejcik, G Velev, R Vidal, M Vondracek, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, J Wahl, C Wang, CH Wang, G Wang, J Wang, MJ Wang, QF Wang, A Warburton, T Watts, R Webb, C Wei, C Wendt, H Wenzel, WC Wester, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, R Wilkinson, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, X Wu, J Wyss, A Yagil, W Yao, K Yasuoka, Y Ye, GP Yeh, P Yeh, M Yin, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, D Yovanovitch, I Yu, L Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, F Zetti, L Zhang, W Zhang, S Zucchelli

Measurement of the B- and B炉 0 Meson Lifetimes Using Semileptonic Decays

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 76:24 (1996) 4462-4467

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, C Anway-Wiese, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, J Bao, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, E Barzi, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Benlloch, J Bensinger, D Benton, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, A Bhatti, K Biery, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, A Bodek, W Bokhari, V Bolognesi, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, J Cammerata, C Campagnari, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, Y Cen, F Cervelli, P Auchincloss, HY Chao, J Chapman, M-T Cheng, G Chiarelli, T Chikamatsu, CN Chiou, L Christofek, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, C Couyoumtzelis, D Crane, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, JD Cunningham, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Delchamps, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, B Denby, M Deninno, PF Derwent, T Devlin, JR Dittmann, S Donati, J Done, T Dorigo, A Dunn, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, JE Elias, R Ely, E Engels, D Errede, S Errede, Q Fan, I Fiori, B Flaugher, GW Foster, M Franklin, M Frautschi, J Freeman, J Friedman, TA Fuess, Y Fukui, S Funaki, G Gagliardi, S Galeotti, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, S Geer, DW Gerdes, P Giannetti, N Giokaris, P Giromini, L Gladney, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Gonzalez, A Gordon, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, H Grassmann, L Groer, C Grosso-Pilcher, G Guillian, RS Guo, C Haber, E Hafen, SR Hahn, R Hamilton, R Handler, RM Hans, K Hara, AD Hardman, B Harral, RM Harris, SA Hauger, J Hauser, C Hawk, E Hayashi, J Heinrich, KD Hoffman, M Hohlmann, C Holck, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, A H枚lscher, S Hong, G Houk, P Hu, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, J Hylen, H Ikeda, M Incagli, J Incandela, G Introzzi, J Iwai, Y Iwata, H Jensen, U Joshi, RW Kadel, E Kajfasz, T Kamon, T Kaneko, K Karr, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, L Keeble, K Kelley, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, P Kesten, D Kestenbaum, RM Keup, H Keutelian, F Keyvan, B Kharadia, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, L Kirsch, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, S Kopp, K Kordas, W Koska, E Kovacs, W Kowald, M Krasberg, J Kroll, M Kruse, T Kuwabara, SE Kuhlmann, E Kuns, AT Laasanen, N Labanca, S Lammel, JI Lamoureux, T LeCompte, S Leone, JD Lewis, P Limon, M Lindgren, TM Liss, N Lockyer, O Long, C Loomis, M Loreti, J Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, J Lys, K Maeshima, A Maghakian, P Maksimovic, M Mangano, J Mansour, M Mariotti, JP Marriner, A Martin, JAJ Matthews, R Mattingly, P McIntyre, P Melese, A Menzione, E Meschi, S Metzler, C Miao, G Michail, R Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, H Mitsushio, T Miyamoto, S Miyashita, Y Morita, J Mueller, A Mukherjee, T Muller, P Murat, H Nakada, I Nakano, C Nelson, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, M Ninomiya, L Nodulman, SH Oh, KE Ohl, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, M Okabe, T Okusawa, R Oliver, J Olsen, C Pagliarone, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, SP Pappas, S Park, A Parri, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, A Perazzo, L Pescara, MD Peters, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, M Pillai, KT Pitts, R Plunkett, L Pondrom, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, K Ragan, A Ribon, F Rimondi, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, J Romano, L Rosenson, R Roser, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, A Sansoni, L Santi, H Sato, V Scarpine, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, A Scribano, S Segler, S Seidel, Y Seiya, G Sganos, A Sgolacchia, MD Shapiro, NM Shaw, Q Shen, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, J Skarha, K Sliwa, FD Snider, T Song, J Spalding, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, L Stanco, J Steele, A Stefanini, K Strahl, J Strait, R Str枚hmer, D Stuart, G Sullivan, A Soumarokov, K Sumorok, J Suzuki, T Takada, T Takahashi, T Takano, K Takikawa, N Tamura, F Tartarelli, W Taylor, PK Teng, Y Teramoto, S Tether, D Theriot, TL Thomas, R Thun, M Timko, P Tipton, A Titov, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, J Tonnison, JF de Troconiz, S Truitt, J Tseng, N Turini, T Uchida, N Uemura, F Ukegawa, G Unal, SC van den Brink, S Vejcik, G Velev, R Vidal, M Vondracek, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, J Wahl, C Wang, CH Wang, G Wang, J Wang, MJ Wang, QF Wang, A Warburton, T Watts, R Webb, C Wei, C Wendt, H Wenzel, WC Wester, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, R Wilkinson, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, X Wu, J Wyss, A Yagil, W Yao, K Yasuoka, Y Ye, GP Yeh, P Yeh, M Yin, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, D Yovanovitch, I Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, F Zetti, L Zhang, W Zhang, S Zucchelli

Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in pp炉 Collisions at 鈭歴=1.8 TeV

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 76:23 (1996) 4307-4311

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, C Anway-Wiese, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, P Auchincloss, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, J Bao, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, E Barzi, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Benlloch, J Bensinger, D Benton, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, A Bhatti, K Biery, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, A Bodek, W Bokhari, V Bolognesi, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, J Cammerata, C Campagnari, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, Y Cen, F Cervelli, HY Chao, J Chapman, M-T Cheng, G Chiarelli, T Chikamatsu, CN Chiou, L Christofek, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, C Couyoumtzelis, D Crane, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, JD Cunningham, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Delchamps, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, L Demortier, B Denby, M Deninno, PF Derwent, T Devlin, M Dickson, JR Dittmann, S Donati, J Done, T Dorigo, A Dunn, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, JE Elias, R Ely, E Engels, D Errede, S Errede, Q Fan, I Fiori, B Flaugher, GW Foster, M Franklin, M Frautschi, J Freeman, J Friedman, H Frisch, TA Fuess, Y Fukui, S Funaki, G Gagliardi, S Galeotti, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, S Geer, DW Gerdes, P Giannetti, N Giokaris, P Giromini, L Gladney, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Gonzalez, A Gordon, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, H Grassmann, L Groer, C Grosso-Pilcher, G Guillian, RS Guo, C Haber, E Hafen, SR Hahn, R Hamilton, R Handler, RM Hans, K Hara, AD Hardman, B Harral, RM Harris, SA Hauger, J Hauser, C Hawk, E Hayashi, J Heinrich, KD Hoffman, M Hohlmann, C Holck, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, A H枚lscher, S Hong, G Houk, P Hu, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, J Hylen, H Ikeda, M Incagli, J Incandela, G Introzzi, J Iwai, Y Iwata, H Jensen, U Joshi, RW Kadel, E Kajfasz, T Kamon, T Kaneko, K Karr, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, L Keeble, K Kelley, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, P Kesten, D Kestenbaum, RM Keup, H Keutelian, F Keyvan, B Kharadia, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, L Kirsch, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, S Kopp, K Kordas, W Koska, E Kovacs, W Kowald, M Krasberg, J Kroll, M Kruse, T Kuwabara, SE Kuhlmann, E Kuns, AT Laasanen, N Labanca, S Lammel, JI Lamoureux, T LeCompte, S Leone, JD Lewis, P Limon, M Lindgren, TM Liss, N Lockyer, O Long, C Loomis, M Loreti, J Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, J Lys, K Maeshima, A Maghakian, P Maksimovic, M Mangano, J Mansour, M Mariotti, JP Marriner, A Martin, JAJ Matthews, R Mattingly, P McIntyre, P Melese, A Menzione, E Meschi, S Metzler, C Miao, G Michail, R Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, H Mitsushio, T Miyamoto, S Miyashita, Y Morita, J Mueller, A Mukherjee, T Muller, P Murat, H Nakada, I Nakano, C Nelson, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, M Ninomiya, L Nodulman, SH Oh, KE Ohl, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, M Okabe, T Okusawa, R Oliver, J Olsen, C Pagliarone, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, SP Pappas, S Park, A Parri, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, A Perazzo, L Pescara, MD Peters, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, M Pillai, KT Pitts, R Plunkett, L Pondrom, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, K Ragan, A Ribon, F Rimondi, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, J Romano, L Rosenson, R Roser, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, A Sansoni, L Santi, H Sato, V Scarpine, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, A Scribano, S Segler, S Seidel, Y Seiya, G Sganos, A Sgolacchia, MD Shapiro, NM Shaw, Q Shen, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, J Skarha, K Sliwa, FD Snider, T Song, J Spalding, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, L Stanco, J Steele, A Stefanini, K Strahl, J Strait, R Str枚hmer, D Stuart, G Sullivan, A Soumarokov, K Sumorok, J Suzuki, T Takada, T Takahashi, T Takano, K Takikawa, N Tamura, B Tannenbaum, F Tartarelli, W Taylor, PK Teng, Y Teramoto, S Tether, D Theriot, TL Thomas, R Thun, M Timko, P Tipton, A Titov, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, J Tonnison, JF de Troconiz, S Truitt, J Tseng, N Turini, T Uchida, N Uemura, F Ukegawa, G Unal, SC van den Brink, S Vejcik, G Velev, R Vidal, M Vondracek, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, J Wahl, C Wang, CH Wang, G Wang, J Wang, MJ Wang, QF Wang, A Warburton, G Watts, T Watts, R Webb, C Wei, C Wendt, H Wenzel, WC Wester, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, R Wilkinson, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, X Wu, J Wyss, A Yagil, W Yao, K Yasuoka, Y Ye, GP Yeh, P Yeh, M Yin, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, D Yovanovitch, I Yu, L Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, F Zetti, L Zhang, W Zhang, S Zucchelli

A fully software-programmable pipelined trigger-processing module

IEEE T NUCL SCI 43:3 (1996) 1689-1694

Authors:

GD Barr, F Formenti, W Iwanski, P Kapusta, H Wahl, M Ziolkowski

Abstract:

We describe a general purpose 40MHz pipelined trigger processing board containing six look-up tables and the logic needed to programmably route the signals between them. A series of identical boards are connected in cascade in the NA48 CP-violation experiment at CERN, accept digital inputs generated from calorimeter signals and are used to perform the different computations necessary for the trigger reconstruction. The board architecture is designed to be flexible so that a single basic hardware design can perform all the different algorithms we require and so that the trigger algorithms can be adapted if needed. The computation latency of the combined network of eight boards is approximately 3 mu s. We present examples of some of the functions which have been implemented. We discuss the automatic reprogramming software which has been developed so that a new design can be implemented easily.