The production of charmed particles and a limit to tau lepton production have been measured using a hybrid emulsion spectrometer in the Fermilab wide-band neutrino beam. / The relative cross section for charged current charmed particle production is / (DIAGRAM, TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI) / and the energy dependence of the cross section and the kinematic distributions of the charm events are given. One event with charm pair production was observed. A limit of (sigma)((nu)(--->)(mu)cc)/(sigma)((nu)(--->)(mu)c) < 0.06 (90%C.L.) is set to the ratio of charged current pair and single charm production. The relative rates of D(DEGREES), D('+), F('+), and (LAMDA)(,c)('+) production have been measured--the fraction of D mesons is / (DIAGRAM, TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI) / Momentum, transverse momentum, Feynman X, and fragmentation (Z) distributions are presented. The mean Z for charmed hadrons is 0.59 (+OR-) 0.03((+OR-) 0.03). / No tau leptons were observed, and an upper limit to the (nu)(,(mu))-(tau) coupling of 0.0063 (90%C.L.) is set. For (nu)(,(mu))-(nu)(,(tau)) oscillations this implies / (DIAGRAM, TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI) / for maximum mixing.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.71835 |
| Date | January 1983 |
| Creators | Bailey, David Charles. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000176316, proquestno: AAINK64547, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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