Open AccessStudy of electron and neutrino interactions
Author(s) -
A. Abashian
Publication year - 1997
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/461290
Subject(s) - physics , fermilab , nuclear physics , electroweak interaction , collider , particle physics , neutrino , muon , standard model (mathematical formulation) , particle accelerator , beam (structure) , archaeology , gauge (firearms) , optics , history
This is the final report for the DOE-sponsored experimental particle physics program at Virginia Tech to study the properties of the Standard Model of strong and electroweak interactions. This contract (DE-AS05-80ER10713) covers the period from August 1, 1980 to January 31, 1993. Task B of this contract, headed by Professor Alexander Abashian, is described in this final report. This program has been pursued on many fronts by the researchers-in a search for axions at SLAC, in electron-positron collisions in the AMY experiment at the TRISTAN collider in Japan, in measurements of muon decay properties in the MEGA and RHO experiments at the LAMPF accelerator, in a detailed analysis of scattering effects in the purported observation of a 17 keV neutrino at Oxford, in a search for a disoriented chiral condensate with the MiniMax experiment at Fermilab, and in an R&D program on resistive plate counters that could find use in low-cost high-quality charged particle detection at low rates