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TWO NEUTRINO EXPERIMENTKonstantin GoulianosThe Rockefeller University
BNL 90/50/10 CELEBRATION
JUNE 12, 2010
A lecture dedicated to:Mel Schwartz, -
my mentor and thesis advisorLeon Lederman and Jack Steinberger -
my co-mentors and co-advisorsNari
Mistry
–
my twin neutrinoJean-Marc Gailliard
–
visitor from OrsayGordon Danby, BNL
Warner Hayes, our technician at largeCOLUMBIA AND BNL
90/50/10Celebration
BNL 90/50/10 Celebration Program Committee
Derek Lowenstein, Chair
Peter Bond, BNL
Helen Caines, Yale
Satoshi Ozaki, BNL
Nicholas Samios, BNL
Julius Spiro, BNL
Steve Vigdor, BNL
Berkner Hall
Brookhaven National Laboratory
June 10-11, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Satoshi Ozaki, Session Chair
9:00 a.m. Nicholas Samios, BNL “The Road to RHIC”
9:25 a.m. Tom Ludlam, BNL “How the RHIC Experiments Came to Be”
9:45 a.m. Tom Hemmick, SBU “Sailing the Perfect Liquid: Highlights and Discoveries of the Four RHIC Experiments”
10:15 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Raju Venugopalan, BNL “Lessons in Extreme Quantum Chromo Dynamics from RHIC”
11:20 a.m. Frithjof Karsch, BNL “30 Years of QCD Thermodynamics on the Lattice”
11:45 a.m. Jamie Nagle, University of Colorado at Boulder “The Science of RHIC II: Today and Tomorrow”
12:15 p.m. Program Break
Derek Lowenstein, Session Chair
2:00 p.m. Robert Jaffe, MIT “The Long Search for the Spin of the Proton”
2:35 p.m. Gerry Bunce, BNL “SPIN”
3:10 p.m. Thomas Roser, BNL “The Future of RHIC”
3:45 p.m. Elke Aschenauer, BNL “The Structure of Matter, What the Electron Ion Collider Will Teach Us”
4:20 p.m. Steve Vigdor, BNL “BNL NP/HEP Plan”
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
Thursday, June 10, 2010
1:00 p.m. Welcome Sam Aronson, BNL
Nicholas Samios, Session Chair
1:10 p.m. Ronnie Rau, BNL “AGS History”
1:35 p.m. Samuel C.C. Ting, MIT “Precision Experiments on the Ground and in Space – The “J” Experiment at BNL and the AMS Experiment on the Space Station”
2:00 p.m. James Cronin, University of Chicago “Reminiscences of a Post Doc”
2:30 p.m. Douglas Bryman, TRIUMF “Seeking New Physics with Rare Kaon Decays”
3:00 p.m. Break
Peter Bond, Session Chair
3:25 p.m. Konstantin Goulianos, Rockefeller University “Two Neutrino Experiment”
3:55 p.m. Paul Langacker, Institute for Advanced Study “Frontiers in Neutrino Physics”
4:25 p.m. David Kaplan, University of Washington “Frontiers in Nuclear Theory”
5:00 p.m. Sally Dawson, BNL “Frontiers in Particle Physics”
5:35 p.m. Ernest Courant, BNL “Reminiscences”
5:55 p.m. Mark Barton, BNL “Reminiscences of Ernest Courant, and the Start up of the AGS and RHIC”
6:15 p.m. Wine & Cheese Reception, Building 400 Lobby
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The 2ν’s –
a personal account1958 –
60 @ Columbia: graduate coursessome fellow students:
Nari
Mistry
–
the other neutrinoMike Tannenbaum
(μp→μp), David Bartlett (μ→e
γ/μ→e
ν ν
< 10-8) Richard FriedbergNorman Christ
some professors:Lee, Rabi, Towns, Kush, Lederman, Schwartz, Steinberger, Feinberg
1960 – 61 @ Nevis: spark chamber R&D(then) future Nobel recipients: Rainwater, Rubbia, TingCharlie Baltay, John Peoples, Lee Pondrom, Uriel Nauenberg, …+…
1961 @ BNL: assemble and test 10-ton spark chamber detector1962 @ BNL: 2ν run (a six-month-long shift!)1963: write thesis PhD1964: follow-up neutrino experiment with a 50-ton spark chamber
search for W in di-muon production νμ + A μ + W( μ + vμ)+A’found evidence for neutral currents but quoted an upper limit.
1976: neutrino-proton elastic scattering: Phys.Rev.Lett.37:186-189,1976
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2ν-PAPERS
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μ → e γ νμ = νe
June 1963
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Experimental set-up
7.5°
15 – BeVshielding!!!
21 m
BACKGROUND
signal
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SPARK CHAMBER –
at Smithsonian?
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CHAMBER CONSTRUCTION AND TRIGGERING
SPARK GAP
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OPTICS
VERTICALPROJECTION
HORIZONTALPROJECTION
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e-CALIBRATION AT THE COSMOTRON
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e -
SHOWERS FROM COSMOTRON TEST
300 MeV/c
400 MeV/c
600 MeV/c
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e -
CALIBRATION: NO. OF SPARKS
normalized to the expected #
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SINGLE MUON EVENTS
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A “VERTEX”
EVENT: Etotal
=2 BeV
ν+ p →
p + μ-
+ W+
W+ → π+
+ πo
πo
→ γ + γ (?)
μ-
γγ
π+
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TABLE OF OBSERVED EVENTS
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The first event
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Mel & Gina Lollobrigida
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-
but in the Greek Press…
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At Nevis in 1960 -
61
wrapping counters-
all 130 of them!!!
at my workbench that doubled as a deskthose were the days…
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At BNL in 1961-
62 → 64
working
posing
installing counters-
Mel, Dino and 1/3 of (?)
W/Mike Tannenbaum
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SEARCH FOR THE W-BOSON
set limit on mW
12+50 tons
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In Stockholm in 1988
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From Gary and Jack
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NEVIS REUNION 18 FEB 1989
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THE NAMING OF THE MUON-NEUTRINO
FROM MY TALK AT THE NEVIS REUNION ON 18 FEB 1989
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WHAT IS IN A NAME?
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SLIDE 1
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SLIDE 2
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SLIDE 3
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VERSE 1
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SLIDE 4
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VERSE 2a
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SLIDE 5
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VERSE 2b
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SLIDE 6
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VERSE 3a
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SLIDE 7
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VERSE 3b
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SLIDE 8
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VERSE 4
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SLIDE 9
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VERSE 5a
INSTOCKHOLM !
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VERSE 5b
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SLIDE 10
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MORE ?
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What Nari
would have said…
at the Nevis reunion
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Ask me about it…
1-The summit at Nevis in 19602-Finding a mentor –
Jack, Leon or Mel?
3-Harnessing the background4-The first event -
Helmut and the postcard
5-The “Melon”6-The “crappers”
that were neutral currents
●●●
and more!