Mapping the material in the LHCb vertex locator using secondary hadronic interactions
| dc.contributor.author | Ilten, Philip J | |
| dc.contributor.author | Williams, Michael | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-06T19:25:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-10-27T19:57:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-09-06T19:25:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134066.2 | |
| dc.description.abstract | © 2018 CERN. Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Precise knowledge of the location of the material in the LHCb vertex locator (VELO) is essential to reducing background in searches for long-lived exotic particles, and in identifying jets that originate from beauty and charm quarks. Secondary interactions of hadrons produced in beam-gas collisions are used to map the location of material in the VELO. Using this material map, along with properties of a reconstructed secondary vertex and its constituent tracks, a p-value can be assigned to the hypothesis that the secondary vertex originates from a material interaction. A validation of this procedure is presented using photon conversions to dimuons. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | IOP Publishing | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1088/1748-0221/13/06/P06008 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported license | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ | en_US |
| dc.source | IOP Publishing | en_US |
| dc.title | Mapping the material in the LHCb vertex locator using secondary hadronic interactions | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | en_US |
| dc.relation.journal | Journal of Instrumentation | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-11-18T17:34:21Z | |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Alexander, M; Barter, W; Bay, A; Bel, LJ; Beuzekom, MV; Bogdanova, G; Borghi, S; Bowcock, TJV; Buchanan, E; Buytaert, J; Akiba, KC; Chen, S; Coco, V; Collins, P; Crocombe, A; Marinho, FDC; Dall'Occo, E; Capua, SD; Dean, CT; Dettori, F; Dossett, D; Dreimanis, K; Dujany, G; Eklund, L; Evans, T; Ferro-Luzzi, M; Gersabeck, M; Gershon, T; Hadavizadeh, T; Harrison, J; Hennessy, K; Hulsbergen, W; Hutchcroft, D; Ilten, P; Jans, E; John, M; Kopciewicz, P; Koppenburg, P; Lafferty, G; Latham, T; Leflat, A; Majewski, MW; McNulty, R; Mylroie-Smith, J; Oblakowska-Mucha, A; Parkes, C; Pearce, A; Poluektov, A; Pritchard, A; Qian, W; Redford, S; Richards, S; Rinnert, K; Rodrigues, E; Sarpis, G; Schiller, M; Schindler, H; Smith, M; Smith, ; Szumlak, T; Velthuis, JJ; Volkov, V; Wallace, C; Wark, HM; Webber, A; Williams, MRJ; Williams, M | en_US |
| dspace.date.submission | 2020-11-18T17:34:23Z | |
| mit.journal.volume | 13 | en_US |
| mit.journal.issue | 06 | en_US |
| mit.license | PUBLISHER_CC | |
| mit.metadata.status | Publication Information Needed | en_US |
