Time-integrated luminosity recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- collider
Creators
- 1. Laboratoire d'a-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 a-Le-Vieux (France)
- 2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
- 3. INFN Sezione di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
- 4. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, Newtonstr. 15, D-12489 Berlin (Germany)
- 5. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
- 6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
- 7. Ruhr Universität Bochum, Institut für Experimentalphysik 1, D-44780 Bochum (Germany)
- 8. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1 (Canada)
- 9. Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH (United Kingdom)
- 10. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090 (Russian Federation)
Description
We describe a measurement of the time-integrated luminosity of the data collected by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at the ϒ(4S), ϒ(3S), and ϒ(2S) resonances and in a continuum region below each resonance. We measure the time-integrated luminosity by counting e+e-→e+e- and (for the ϒ(4S) only) e+e-→μ+μ- candidate events, allowing additional photons in the final state. We use data-corrected simulation to determine the cross-sections and reconstruction efficiencies for these processes, as well as the major backgrounds. Due to the large cross-sections of e+e-→e+e- and e+e-→μ+μ-, the statistical uncertainties of the measurement are substantially smaller than the systematic uncertainties. The dominant systematic uncertainties are due to observed differences between data and simulation, as well as uncertainties on the cross-sections. For data collected on the ϒ(3S) and ϒ(2S) resonances, an additional uncertainty arises due to ϒ→e+e-X background. For data collected off the ϒ resonances, we estimate an additional uncertainty due to time dependent efficiency variations, which can affect the short off-resonance runs. The relative uncertainties on the luminosities of the on-resonance (off-resonance) samples are 0.43% (0.43%) for the ϒ(4S), 0.58% (0.72%) for the ϒ(3S), and 0.68% (0.88%) for the ϒ(2S)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.04.029Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2013.04.029;
- PII
- S0168-9002(13)00434-8;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 726
- Journal Page Range
- p. 203-213
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45048182
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ASYMMETRY; BEAM LUMINOSITY; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CROSS SECTIONS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON-POSITRON INTERACTIONS; MULTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PEP STORAGE RINGS; PHOTONS; SHOWER COUNTERS; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; UPSILON-10580 MESONS; UPSILON-10860 MESONS; VARIATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; BOTTOMONIUM; DRIFT CHAMBERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; LEPTON-LEPTON INTERACTIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MESONS; MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS; QUARKONIUM; RADIATION DETECTORS; SIMULATION; SPECTROMETERS; STORAGE RINGS; VECTOR MESONS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.