The NOMAD experiment at the CERN SPS

被引：175

作者：

Altegoer, J

Anfreville, M

Angelini, C

Astier, P

Authier, M

Autiero, D

Baldisseri, A

Baldo-Ceolin, M

Ballocchi, G

Banner, M

Basa, S

Bassompierre, G

Benslama, K

Bird, I

Blumenfeld, B

Bobisut, F

Bouchez, J

Bunyatov, S

Boyd, S

Bueno, A

Camilleri, L

Cardini, A

Castera, A

Cattaneo, PW

Cavasinni, V

Cavestro, V

Cloue, O

Conforto, G

Conta, C

Cousins, R

De Santo, A

Del Prete, T

Di Lella, L

Dignan, T

Silva, EDE

Donnelly, LJ

Dumarchez, J

Dumps, L

Engster, C

Fazio, T

Feldman, GJ

Ferrari, R

Ferrere, D

Flaminio, V

Fraternali, M

Fumagalli, G

Gaillard, JM

Galumian, P

Gangler, E

Geiser, A

机构：

[1] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

[2] Univ Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

[3] CEA Saclay, DAPNIA, Gif Sur Yvette, France

[4] Univ Pisa, Pisa, Italy

[5] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Pisa, Italy

[6] Univ Paris 06, LPNHE, Paris, France

[7] Univ Paris 07, Paris, France

[8] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

[9] Univ Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

[10] LAPP, Annecy, France

[11] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD USA

[12] JINR, Dubna, Russia

[13] Univ Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

[14] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA

[15] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[16] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA

[17] Univ Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

[18] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-50125 Florence, Italy

[20] Univ Urbino, I-61029 Urbino, Italy

[21] ANSTO Sydney, Menai, NSW, Australia

[22] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow, Russia

[23] Univ Florence, Florence, Italy

[24] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-50125 Florence, Italy

[25] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, Zagreb, Croatia

[26] Univ Calabria, I-87036 Cosenza, Italy

[27] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Cosenza, Italy

[28] Univ Padua, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Padua, Italy

来源：

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT | 1998年 / 404卷 / 01期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会;

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D O I：

10.1016/S0168-9002(97)01079-6

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

The NOMAD experiment is a short base-line search for v(mu) - v(tau) oscillations in the CERN neutrino beam. The v(tau)'s are searched for through their charged current interactions followed by the observation of the resulting tau(-) through its electronic, muonic or hadronic decays. These decays are recognized using kinematical criteria necessitating the use of a light target which enables the reconstruction of individual particles produced in the neutrino interactions. This paper describes the various components of the NOMAD detector: the target and muon drift chambers, the electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters, the preshower and transition radiation detectors and the veto and trigger scintillation counters. The beam and data acquisition system are also described. The quality of the reconstruction and individual particles is demonstrated through the ability of NOMAD to observe K-s(o)'s, Lambda(o)'s and pi(0)s. Finally, the observation of tau(-) through its electronic decay being one of the most promising channels in the search, the identification of electrons in NOMAD is discussed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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