High energy physics studies. Progress report for Task D
The major research activity of Task D has been collaboration in experiments E791 and E871 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. During the past year, the collaboration has published results of the second major run, nearly completed analysis of the final data from the experiment and reported some of these results in conferences. The authors now have a substantially better understanding of the potential backgrounds and systematic uncertainties in the experiment. This understanding is important for both the results to be derived from the present data and for future experiments. In addition, they have conducted extensive tests for the new experiment at Brookhaven. Their goal is to improve the sensitivity to rare decay modes of kaons by a factor of 20 over the final E791 result. In the coming year the authors will finish the final analysis of all data from the experiment, including a consistent reanalysis of all data and preparation of a Phys. Rev. D article describing the measurement. Assuming approval of E871 by BNL, they will finalize detailed design of the experiment and begin prototype testing and construction. In addition to the ongoing efforts on E791 and E871 at BNL, they have begun looking at the possibility of mounting a substantially improved experiment to be performed at the proposed Main Injector at Fermilab. This effort would be part of a Main Injector Kaon Facility. In this contract renewal request, they will review the current status of lepton flavor violation in K decays, summarize the status of the experiment, report in some detail on a number of the specific projects in which personnel supported by this contract have been involved, discuss the possibilities for future directions of the experiment, and list specific requests to the funding agency.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT03-76ER71019
- OSTI ID:
- 656818
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/71019-T5-Pt.1; ON: DE98006389; BR: 35KA02000; ADJ-BR-RG; TRN: AHC29817%%377
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Aug 1991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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