Particle Physics Seminar

The MIPP Experiment measures differential particle production cross sections of beams of charged pions, kaons, protons, and anti-protons with momenta of 5 to 90 GeV/c on nuclear and cryogenic targets spanning the periodic table from hydrogen to uranium. MIPP also used 120 GeV/c proton beam incident on the NuMI neutrino production target and several nuclei. The MIPP detector measures all charged particles created in the reactions using a time projection chamber (TPC), tracking chambers, and particle identification from dE/dx in the TPC, time-of-flight (TOF), a multi-cell threshold Cherenkov detector, and a ring imaging Cherenkov detector (RICH).
MIPP physics goals include topics in particle physics (non-perturbative QCD hadron dynamics, particle fragmentation scaling laws, light meson and baryon spectroscopy, charged kaon mass measurement), nuclear physics (y-scaling, strangeness production and flavor propagation in nuclei), and service measurements (neutrino flux for MINOS and atmospheric neutrino experiments, input for hadronic shower simulators and calorimetry design, and proton radiography).
We will present the experimental setup, the data reconstruction, first results from data taken in 2005 and 2006, and the status of an upgrade and future run of the experiment.