The CLEO Experiment at Cornell
The High Energy Physics Experimental group is involved in a major collaborative effort named CLEO at the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory at Cornell. The Cornell Electron Storage Rings produce electron-positron annihilations; the CLEO experiment detects the results of these annihilations. The objective is to study details of new quark states and couplings. For many years the accelerator with beam energies perfect for the investigation of particles containing bottom quarks, which was also very convenient for finding new states containing charm quarks. In the last few years, the energy has been lowered for a systematic study of the charmonium states. Data from Cornell is analyzed using the large parallel processing computer farm located in Florida. This has led to many discoveries concerning in particular rare decays of B mesons and new charmed baryon states. Measurements such as these provide fundamental tests of the Standard Model description of strong, electromagnetic and weak decays.
This picture of the CLEO II detector with annotations is useful for getting a quick understanding.
Investigators
John Yelton (Faculty)
Basit Athar (Assistant-In Physics, stationed at Cornell)
Rukshana Patel (Graduate Student)
Current Projects
CLEO analysis projects
Links to CLEO Sites
CLEO Collaboration Home Page
Software Documentation
CESR Status
Picture Gallery created by Chris Jones