E. Pothier

TEXAS: a calorimeter-based high-rate detector for the SSC

Abstract The conceptual design for a novel SSC detector that focuses on calorimetry is presented. The physics goals include searches for elementary scalars of low mass (MH 600 GeV), for heavy supersymmetric matter, for compositeness and for strong vector-boson interactions. Examples of the relevant signatures are H → γγ; H → ZZ ∗ ; H → lvq q , llvv, llq q ; g g → E T miss + > 2 jets ; and a jet excess at high pT. These goals may be achieved with high precision, fast, compensated and hermetic calorimetry, optimized for electrons, photons, and jets. The design allows for total hermeticity to η = 5.5 missing energy. All the goals require operation at high luminosity and the additional concerns of γ-γ and jet-jet separation, as well as survival in a high radiation environment, are addressed by an unusually large inner radius of the detector. The detector concept consists of the following few and well defined components: a scintillating fiber tracking system incorporating an imaging preradiator, a projective, finely segmented, thick scintillator calorimeter; and a muon TRD trigger and spectrometer.

Missing-mass search for negative-charge bosons with masses between 2 and 12. 5 GeV

A missing-mass search has been made for negatively charged boson resonances B/sup -/ produced in the reaction ..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. B/sup -/p at beam momenta of 40, 100, 200, and 240 GeV. Approximately 600 000 events were included in the final mass spectra. In the mass region 2 < or = M/sub B/ < or = 12.5 GeV no statistically significant enhancements were observed. The 5-standard-deviation upper limit on the production of narrow resonances is of the order of 10 ..mu..b for 2 < or = M/sub B/ < or = 10.5 GeV.

Search for forward production of massive states which decay with muon emission

In a search for charmed particles the reactions ..pi../sup -/+p..-->..p/sub r/+..mu..+X and p+p..-->..p/sub r/+..mu..+X have been studied at beam energies of 200 and 240 GeV, respectively. Measurements of the beam particle and the slow recoil proton, p/sub r/, were used to reconstruct the mass (M) of the ..mu..+X system. Model-dependent upper limits, sensitive to threshold behavior, are presented for the forward production cross section times the muon branching ratio for high-mass states (6

DIMUON PRODUCTION BY PIONS AND PROTONS IN IRON AND A SEARCH FOR THE PRODUCTION IN HYDROGEN OF NEW PARTICLES WHICH DECAY INTO MUONS

Dimuon production cross sections were measured with a 200 GeV ..pi../sup -/ beam and a 240 GeV proton (p) beam. The dimuon mass spectra produced by ..pi.. and p have essentially the same shape. The dimuon transverse momentum behavior is essentially the same for vector mesons produced by ..pi.. or by p. For (rho + ..omega..) or psi production the x (Feynman) behavior is approximately independent of the mass of the dimuon produced. The dimuon ..pi.. production cross section is approximately 6 times greater than that of the p for x greater than .5. Using a missing mass (M/sub m/) technique, the same pion and proton beams were used to search for the production in hydrogen of new particles which decay with muon emission. Model dependent upper limits (50 to 7000 nanobarns) for the production of such objects with 2.5 less than M/sub m/ less than 7. GeV are given (for charmed meson pair production M/sub m/ is the mass of the D anti D system).