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From: gts@dmcnh.UUCP (Guy The Schafer)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Accuracy of timing secondary particle formation in p-p collisions
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 11:24:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 11:24:52 1985
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In current collsion detectors what is the timeframe to which the creation of
secondary particles can be pinpointed.  From a description I read of the
main detector on the Proton-Antiproton Collider at CERN (_The Particle
Connection_ by Dr. Christine Sutton), it doesn't seem it would pinpoint the
moment of creation to better than a few microseconds.  Is this true? Are
there detectors with a better timing mechanism?
We're going to have to better if we want to find those pesky tau-neutrinos.
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