Online data quality monitoring system at BESⅢ

The online Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) tool plays an important role in the data recording process of HEP experiments. The BESⅢ DQM collects data from the online data flow, reconstructs them with offline reconstruction software and automatically analyzes the reconstructed data with user-defined algorithms. The DQM software is a scalable distributed system. The monitored results are gathered and displayed in various formats, which provides the shifter with current run information that can be used to identify problems quickly. This paper gives an overview of the DQM system at BESⅢ.     

卡姆兰德实验发现反应堆中微子消失

 由日、美、中科学家组成的卡姆兰德(KamLAND)实验组在2002年12月6日宣布发现了核反应堆中产生的电子反中微子消失的现象。这意味着反应堆中产生的电子反中微子发生振荡,变成了另一种没有被探测到的中微子。这项重要的实验结果确证了太阳中微子振荡,并确定了中微子振荡的关键参数,是近年来与中微子有关的一系列重大发现之一,对粒子物理、天体物理和宇宙学具有重大意义。1.中微子及其质量中微子是一种非常小的基本粒子,几乎不与任何物质发生作用,很难发现和探测。1930年泡利为了解释原子核β衰变时能量似乎不守恒的问题时,提出是一种不可探测的中性粒子带走了能量。     

神经元网络在τ→ρV_τ极化分析中的应用

在ＬＥＰ／Ｌ３的τ→ρＶτ极化物理分析中，用人工神经元网络法选择事例，获得了比较高的选择效率．详细研究表明，网络本身不会引入明显的系统偏差．使用在Ｚ０能区采集到的８９７７个τ＋τ－对事例，得到τ→ρＶτ道的极化率Ｐτ＝－０．１２９±０．０５０±０．０５０．本文介绍在这一工作中使用的神经网络训练方法和技巧     

束流实验中不同尺寸塑料闪烁体的时间特性

北京谱仪(BESⅢ)中的飞行时间探测器将采用长2.3m宽6cm的长条形塑料闪烁体. 利用北京高能物理研究所的实验束流对铝膜包装的不同厚度闪烁体的本征时间分辨进行了研究,给出了4cm, 5cm和6cm闪烁体的时间分辨, 而且用蒙特卡罗模拟做了比较, 结果表明5cm厚的闪烁体具有最佳性能.     

液体闪烁体衰减长度和光产额的测量

简要介绍了用于反应堆中微子实验的液体闪烁体的成分, 描述了液闪衰减长度和光产额的测量原理、方法、装置及过程, 给出了不同配比的液闪的光产额和衰减长度的测量结果, 并对液闪光产额和衰减长度的性能及影响因素进行了研究. 测量结果表明, 这些液闪可以满足中微子实验的需求.     

Study of the efficiency of event start time determination at BESⅢ

A method to estimate the efficiency of event start time determination at BESIII is developed.This method estimates the efficiency at the event level by combining the efficiencies of various tracks(e,μ,π,K,p,γ)in a Bayesian way.Efficiencies results and the difference between data and MC at the track level are presented in this paper.For a given physics channel,event start time efficiency and systematic error can be estimated following this method.     

探测器束流相关本底的实验研究

介绍了在北京正负电子对撞机上进行的束流相关本底实验研究,并与计算结果进行了比较.通过实验获得了束流相关本底的特征;并用相应的软件(TURTLE和GEANT3)对束流–气体相互作用本底进行了细致的模拟.实验和模拟结果的比较表明,现有的软件工具模拟在4倍以内是可靠的,从而为正在设计建造的新一代北京正负电子对撞机和北京谱仪的本底模拟奠定了基础.     

Decay vertex reconstruction and 3-dimensional lifetime determination at BESⅢ

This paper focuses mainly on the vertex reconstruction of resonance particles with a relatively long lifetime such as Ks^0, A, as well as on lifetime measurements using a 3-dimensional fit. The kinematic constraints between the production and decay vertices and the decay vertex fitting algorithm based on the least squares method are both presented. Reconstruction efficiencies including experimental resolutions are discussed. The results and systematic errors are calculated based on a Monte Carlo simulation.     

Study of the RPC-Gd as thermal neutron detector

The BESⅢ ·RPC with Gd coating as thermal neutron detector was designed and constructed. Three prototypes were built with different techniques of producing the gadolinium converter. The performance of the cosmic ray test, the signal and the radiation spectrum were discussed in this paper. Lastly, the efficiency of one prototype with the best performance for detecting the thermal neutron was tested as 8.7%.