Abstract
We provide a comprehensive description of experiment E835 at Fermilab, a high-precision experimental study of charmonium bound states. The c̄c states are formed in p̄p annihilations of cooled antiprotons stored in the Fermilab Antiproton Accumulator using a dense internal hydrogen gas-jet target. We describe the experimental strategies adopted for detecting the tiny c̄c resonant signals in the huge non-resonant hadronic background, and for measuring resonance parameters with high precision.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 558-609 |
Number of pages | 52 |
Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
Volume | 519 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1 2004 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work has been supported by the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and by the US Department of Energy (DOE).