Final report on heavy quark studies by the Prairie View High Energy Physics Group211 and Research in Theoretical High Energy Physics to Department of Energy for 211 Prairie View A and M University High Energy Physics

摘要

The HEP group at Prairie View has been involved with experiment E771 at Fermilab211u001esince its inception. Prior to the run, group members did a number of .Monte Carlo 211u001estudies of the E771 triggers, designed and programmed a large part of the E771 211u001edata acquisition system, and acquired and installed the Fastbus readout system 211u001efor the PWC Central Chambers, During the run, our major responsibility was the 211u001esmooth operation of the data acquisition system. Since the run ended, we have 211u001ebeen involved in the offline data analysis of the dirnuon trigger data. We also 211u001ewrote a section of Proposal P867 at Fermilab, a continuation of the E771 study of 211u001eB mesons. Our part of the proposal was a redesign of the data acquisition system 211u001eto improve its efficiency in dealing with the high multiplicity events typical of 211u001eE771. Our work on P867 was discontinued when the Program Advisory Committee at 211u001eFermilab recommended against the proposal, and our work on E771 is now winding 211u001edown.