First Observation Of Dijet Events With An Antiproton Tag At [square root]s = 1.96 TEV Using The DØ Forward Proton Detector

Author

Michael Strang

Graduation Semester and Year

2005

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics and Applied Physics

Department

Physics

First Advisor

Andrew Brandt

Abstract

The Forward Proton Detector (FPD) is a new sub-system of the DØ detector, a 5000 ton particle physics detector located at the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. The FPD was implemented for the Tevatron Run II and gives access to a wide range of diffractive scattering processes, where one or both of the beam particles remain intact. The analysis described in this thesis makes use of the dipole spectrometer of the FPD to tag outgoing antiprotons in events that have a dijet signature in the central D0 calorimeter. Properties of jets with a diffractive tag signature are compared to jets without such a signature yielding the first observation of tagged diffractive dijets at a 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy.

Disciplines

Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

Recommended Citation

Strang, Michael, "First Observation Of Dijet Events With An Antiproton Tag At [square root]s = 1.96 TEV Using The DØ Forward Proton Detector" (2005). Physics Dissertations. 96.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/physics_dissertations/96