Speaker
Mr
Arun Tadepalli
(Rutgers University)
Description
SeaQuest E906 is an experiment aimed at studying the anti-quark distributions in the nucleon and nuclei. The experiment uses a 120 GeV proton beam extracted from the Main Injector at Fermilab to collide with various liquid and cryogenic targets to study a variety of physics topics. It takes advantage of the Drell-Yan process to probe the nucleon sea. In the Drell-Yan process, a quark from one hadron annihilates with an anti-quark from another hadron, producing a virtual photon which eventually decays into a dilepton pair. The SeaQuest forward spectrometer is optimized for detecting the high rate di-muon pairs. The overall status of the experiment and some results will be presented in this talk.
Primary author
Mr
Arun Tadepalli
(Rutgers University)