Calculation of acceptance and efficiency for neutral D mesons decaying to electron-positrons and rates of pions and kaons faking electron signals at CDF

Dhaliwal, Daljit K. ; U., /Wayne State

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

关键词: Pions;    Quarks;    Protons;    Gluons;    43 Particle Accelerators;   

DOI  :  10.2172/909617
RP-ID  :  FERMILAB-MASTERS-2006-08
RP-ID  :  AC02-07CH11359
RP-ID  :  909617

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

In the 19th century, the fundamental units of matter were believed to be atoms. Further experiments in the early 20th century demonstrated that protons and neutrons are just two examples of a class of particles called hadrons, and that hadrons are composed of quarks bound together by gluons. This has evolved to today's Standard Model of particle physics (SM) which encapsulates our knowledge of elementary particles and the fundamental forces between them.