The BABAR Detector

By The Babar Collaboration. 2001

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BABAR, the detector for the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric e+e- B Factory operating at the upsilon 4S resonance, was designed to allow comprehensive studies of CP-violation in B-meson decays. Charged particle tracks are measured in a multi-layer silicon vertex tracker surrounded by a cylindrical wire drift chamber. Electromagentic showers from electrons and photons are detected in an array of CsI crystals located just inside the solenoidal coil of a superconducting magnet. Muons and neutral hadrons are identified by arrays of resistive plate chambers inserted into gaps in the steel flux return of the magnet. Charged hadrons are identified by dE/dx measurements in the tracking detectors and in a ring-imaging Cherenkov detector surrounding the drift chamber. The trigger, data acquisition and data-monitoring systems, VME- and network-based, are controlled by custom-designed online software. Details of the layout and performance of the detector components and their associated electronics and software are presented.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation

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Citations in the corpus

• The experimental status of glueballs (2008, background): “BaBar is a cylindrically-shaped detector [147] with the interaction region at its center.”
• Glueballs, Hybrids, Multiquarks. Experimental facts versus QCD inspired concepts (2007, background): “These properties encouraged searches by other collaborations, by FOCUS (quoted from [750]), BaBaR [594], and CLEO [832].”
• The DIRC particle identification system for the BaBar experiment (2004, methodology): “This paper will discuss the construction, operation and performance of the BABAR DIRC in greater detail than presented in an earlier description of the BABAR detector [1].”
• Determination of the quark coupling strength |Vub| using baryonic decays (2015, background): “This cross-section is five orders of magnitude larger than the corresponding production cross-section for ee ! ⌥(4s) ! BB at the B-factories BaBar [50] and Belle [51].”
• Flavor Physics in the Quark Sector (2009, methodology): “V/III 9 [202–206] at CESR, BaBar [207] at PEP-II and Belle [208] at KEK-B, are multipurpose and require exclusive and hermetic reconstruction of the decay products of all generated particles.”