CHORUS Results on Charm Physics

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CHORUS Results on Charm Physics
CHORUS Results on Charm Physics
Belgium (Brussels, Louvain-la-Neuve), CERN,
Germany (Berlin, Münster), Israel (Haifa), Italy
(Bari, Cagliari, Ferrara, Naples, Rome,
Salerno), Japan (Toho, Kinki, Aichi, Kobe,
Nagoya, Osaka, Utsunomiya), Korea
(Gyeongsang), The Netherlands (Amsterdam),
Russia (Moscow), Turkey (Adana,Ankara,Istanbul)
Takayuki Kawamura
CERN, Geneva
Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée
d'Aoste La Thuile, Aosta Valley (Italy) 9 15
March 2003
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Outline

• Brief description of the experiment
• Results on charm analysis

• CHORUS detector
• Automatic emulsion data acquisition

• Semi-leptonic branching fraction of charm hadrons
• Measurement of ?c production
• Measurement of D0 production
• Measurement of D0 neutrals
• Associate charm production

• Conclusions

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CHORUS detector
Air-core magnet ?p/p 0.035 p (GeV/c) ? 0.22
Active target nuclear emulsion target (770kg)
scintillating fiber tracker
Muon spectrometer ?p/p 10 15
(p lt 70 GeV/c)
?m
Calorimeter ?E/E 32 /? E (hadrons)
14 /? E (electrons) ?? h 60 mrad _at_ 10
GeV
27 GeV
CERN SPS
Veto
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Automatic emulsion data acquisition
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Location of n interaction vertex guided by
electronic detector.
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Full data taking around n interaction vertex
called Netscan
Volume 1.5 x 1.5 mm2 x 6.3 mm
Angular acceptance 400 mrad
11 minutes / event
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Offline tracking and vertex reconstruction
Reconstruct full vertex topology
At least 2-segment connected tracks
Track segments from 8 plates overlapped
Eliminate passing through tracks
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Semi-leptonic branching fraction of charm hadrons
Motivations
Dimuon events induced by n interaction provides
information on
CKM matrix elements (Vcd,Vcs), charm mass
and strange quark content of the nucleon
n
Charm candidate selection
1ry vtx
Two tracks in emulsion from different vertex
matched to tracks in electronic detector
2ry vtx
1055 events from 56,172 CC events
Visual inspection of the events by eye-scan for
the selection purity check (¼ samples)
Selection purity 0.91 0.02
Corrected number of selected events
Nselected 956 35
Electronic detector tracks
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Semi-leptonic branching fraction of charm hadrons
Average Bm
Nselected
Bm S fDi BR(fDi mX)
2m
R
Uncertainties MC description of muon
ID Fragmentation fractions Selection
efficiencies
Di
Nselected
0.093 0.009(stat.) 0.009(syst.)
On the basis of the visible energy, the energy
dependence of Bm can be determined.
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Measurement of ?c production
Strategy
A statistical approach using flight length
distribution
(Because PID for hadron is very difficult.)
MC
Short flight decay ?c enriched
sample Long flight decay D, Ds
dominant
?c
Ds
D
Two different set of criteria have been adopted.
Flight length in µm
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Measurement of ?c production
Candidate selection
(A)
Short flight decay (A)
Daughter track Distance to the muon 5 µm to 30
µm
1614 events from 50,414 CC events were selected
for visual inspection
Long flight decay (B)
Parent track distance to the muon lt 5 µm
Detector muon
Distance between daughter and parent 5µm to 30 µm
586 events from 56,761 CC events were selected
for visual inspection
(B)
Samples after flight length cut
1 prong
3 prong
(A) 40 mm lt FL lt 400 mm
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66
195
(B) 400 mm lt FL lt 2400 mm
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Detector muon
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Measurement of D0 production
Candidate selection
I.P.

• Primary track matched to detector muon
• Daughter track matched to detector track
• 3 13 µm lt I.P. wrt. 1ry vtx lt 400 µm

I.P.
Detector muon
851 events from 25,693 CC events were selected
for visual inspection
Confirmed D0 sample
2 prong (V2)
226
4 prong (V4)
57
Vertex depth
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Measurement of D0 production
D0 production rate as a function of n energy
Results
Selection efficiencies
E531
s(D0)/s(CC)
V2 58.6 0.7 x 10-2
V4 70.1 1.7 x 10-2
s(D0)/s(CC) x BR(D0 V2,V4) 1.99
0.13(stat.) 0.17(syst.) x 10-2
CHORUS
(D0 V4) / (D0 V2) 23.1 4.0 x 10-2
En (GeV)
() The curve shows a fit based on the slow
rescaling model to NOMAD charm data
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Conclusions
So far, from a subsample of charm data in CHORUS
we have measured
Bµ Phys. Lett. B, 549 (2002) 48 ?c
production To be published in Phys. Lett. B
D0 production Phys. Lett. B, 527 (2002)
173 CC associate charm prod. Phys. Lett. B, 539
(2002) 188 Diffractive Ds prod. Phys. Lett.
B, 435 (1998) 458
We are studying
D0 neutrals, D D0 p Associate charm
production in CC and NC ?c absolute BR, QE ?c
production, BR(?c S X) Charm topological
branching fraction, Fragmentation
function Charm production fraction Anti
neutrino charm production Rare charm decays
Final statistics will be 3,000 charm events.