b-production at the Tevatron

The phenomenology of b-production and some of the previous Run I measurements of CDF and D0 are briefly reviewed. A new analysis by CDF of Run I b-bbar angular correlations and a new measurement by D0 of Run II b-jet cross-section, are presented

CAGIRE: a wide-field NIR imager for the COLIBRI 1.3 meter robotic telescope

The use of high energy transients such as Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) as probes of the distant universe relies on the close collaboration between space and ground facilities. In this context, the Sino-French mission SVOM has been designed to combine a space and a ground segment and to make the most of their synergy. On the ground, the 1.3 meter robotic telescope COLIBRI, jointly developed by France and Mexico, will quickly point the sources detected by the space hard X-ray imager ECLAIRs, in order to detect and localise their visible/NIR counterpart and alert large telescopes in minutes. COLIBRI is equipped with two visible cameras, called DDRAGO-blue and DDRAGO-red, and an infrared camera, called CAGIRE, designed for the study of high redshift GRBs candidates. Being a low-noise NIR camera mounted at the focus of an alt-azimutal robotic telescope imposes specific requirements on CAGIRE. We describe here the main characteristics of the camera: its optical, mechanical and electronics architecture, the ALFA detector, and the operation of the camera on the telescope. The instrument description is completed by three sections presenting the calibration strategy, an image simulator incorporating known detector effects, and the automatic reduction software for the ramps acquired by the detector. This paper aims at providing an overview of the instrument before its installation on the telescope.Comment: Accepted by Experimental Astronom

Quelques expériences gravitant autour du problème de génération de masses

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Etude de quelques problemes en calorimetrie electromagnetique pour le detecteur d'Aleph

SIGLECNRS T 55964 / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueFRFranc

D-Zero silicon microstrip tracker for Run IIA

We describe the production, installation and commissioning of the new 792,576 channel D0 Silicon Microstrip Tracker to be used for the 2 fb{sup -1} of the Run IIa at the Tevatron

Recherche du partenaire supersymétrique du quark bottom au sein de l'expérience DØ auprès du Te Vatron (études sur l'énergie transverse manquante)

AIX-MARSEILLE2-BU Sci.Luminy (130552106) / SudocSudocFranceF