Title :
Software aspects of the Na59 experiment
Author :
Unel, G. ; Birol, Inanc ; Eichblatt, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
Abstract :
NA59 experiment on the CERN SPS-H2 beamline took data during the summers of 1999 and 2000, to investigate the creation of circularly polarized photons starting from unpolarized electrons. The computational hub for the experiment was the Northwestern University, where two clusters of computers served for the Monte Carlo simulation of the experiment, the production of the Data Summary Tapes (DST) and the offline data analysis. After reconstructing about half a million e+ e- pairs and comparing the results with the theoretical predictions, our experiment was first to show the birefringence property of the crystals for the photons in the 30-170 GeV range.
Keywords :
bremsstrahlung; electron accelerators; high energy physics instrumentation computing; photon polarisation; CERN SPS-H2 beamline; Data Summary Tapes; Monte Carlo simulation; Na59 experiment; birefringence property; circularly polarized photons; computational hub; unpolarized electrons; Birefringence; Collaboration; Data analysis; Electron beams; Extraterrestrial measurements; Laser beams; Photonic crystals; Polarization; Production; Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8257-9
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1351829
