Photoproduction
of Heavy Flavours
Overview of the E687/FOCUS spectrometer:
The FERMILABE687
Collaboration studies production and
decay properties of heavy flavours produced in photon-hadron interactions.
The experiment recorded approximately 500 million hadronic triggers in
the 1990-91 fixed target run at Fermilab from which over 80 thousand charm
decays were fully reconstructed. Physics publications include the precision
lifetime measurements of the charm hadrons, D meson semileptonic
form factors, detailed Dalitz
plot analyses, charm
meson and baryon
decay modes and spectroscopy, searchs for rare
and forbidden phenomena, and tests of QCD
production mechanisms. The follow-on experiment FOCUS
COLLABORATION (FERMILAB E831) successfully recorded huge amount of data during the 1996-1997 fixed
target run, and is currently analyzing the data set fervently.
--Last updated 6/10/97 by Jim
Wiss. Partially updated 9/26/2003 by Doris.
Photoproduction
of Heavy Flavours
Overview of the E687/FOCUS spectrometer:
