SLAC Large Detector (SLD)
| The SLAC Large Detector (SLD) made use of the unique capabilities of the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) to perform studies of polarized Z particles (or Z0 bosons) produced in collisions between polarized electrons and positrons. This detector stands six stories tall. |
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The SLD collected data on the production of the Z0 boson using a polarized electron beam. This will lead to the most precise measurement of a crucial parameter in particle physics theory as well as unique measurements on B-mesons. Recent running with SLD confirms a predicted small preference for producing the Z0 boson when the beam is polarized with the spins rotating about the beam axis in a left-handed sense. This distinction between left- and right-handedness at the fundamental particle level is one of the most intriguing phenomena in subatomic physics.
| The SLD collaboration consists of about 150 physicists from many Universities and Laboratories who built, maintained, and analyzed data from the SLD detector. |
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A history of the SLD development is available. The SLD Event Pictures Collection shows computer generated reconstruction of a number of Z particle decays as reconstructed by the SLD detector.
