Published May 26, 1992 | Version v1
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Charm physics at Fermilab E791

  • 1. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)
  • 2. California Univ., Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  • 3. Cincinnati Univ., OH (United States)
  • 4. Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (United States)
  • 5. Illinois Inst. of Tech., Chicago, IL (United States)
  • 6. University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (United States)
  • 7. Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
  • 8. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  • 9. Universidade Federal, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)
  • 10. Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel)
  • 11. Toronto, Ontario, CA (Canada)
  • 12. Tufts Univ., Medford, MA (United States)
  • 13. Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI (United States)
  • 14. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)

Description

Experiment 791 at Fermilab's Tagged Photon Laboratory has just accumulated a high statistics charm sample by recording 20 billion events on 24000 8mm tapes. A 500 GeV/c π- beam was used with a fixed target and a magnetic spectrometer which now includes 23 silicon microstrip planes for vertex reconstruction. A new data acquisition system read out 9000 events/sec during the part of the Tevatron cycle that delivered beam. Digitization and readout took 50 μS per event. Data was buffered in eight large FIFO memories to allow continuous event building and continuous tape writing to a wall of 42 Exabytes at 9.6 MB/sec. The 50 terabytes of data buffered to tape is now being filtered on RISC CPUs. Preliminary results show D0 → K-π+ and D+ → K-ππ+ decays. Rarer decays will be pursued

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
6 p.
Report number
CONF-9203197--1

Conference

Title
electroweak interactions and unified theories.
Acronym
27. Rencontres de Moriond
Dates
15-22 Mar 1992.
Place
Les Arcs (France).