André David's Doctoral Thesis

"Prompt and displaced muon production in Indium-Indium collisions as measured by the NA60 experiment"

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Chapters

• Cover (full or text)
• Abstract & Resumo (full or text)
• Acknowledgements (full or text)
• Introduction (full or text)
• Guide (full or text)
• Main matter (full or text)
  • I - The NA60 Experimental Setup
    • 1 - Overall Design and Implementation (full or text)
    • 2 - The Silicon Pixel Tracker (full or text)
    • 3 - The Silicon Microstrip Tracker (full or text)
    • 4 - Data Acquisition and Detector Control (full or text)
    • 5 - Ideas for a new dimuon trigger (full or text)
  • II - Physics Analysis
    • 6 - Data Reconstruction and Selection (full or text)
    • 7 - Background Subtraction (full or text)
    • 8 - Existence and properties of the IMR excess (full or text)
      • Note on equation 8.3
  • Summary and Outlook (full or text)
• Appended Matter (full)
  • A - 2003 Silicon Pixel Tracker (full)
  • B - DAQ Technology in NA60 (full)
  • C - Burst-by-burst data selection (full)

• • • Details on the data selection