Mapping the material in the LHCb vertex locator using secondary hadronic interactions

© 2018 CERN. Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Precise knowledge of the location of the material in the LHCb vertex locator (VELO) is essential to reducing background in searches for long-lived exotic particles, and in identifying jets that originate from beauty and charm quarks. Secondary interactio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ilten, Philip J, Williams, Michael
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134066.2