One very specific technique in this general process relies on the observation of a secondary vertex a small distance away from a collision point and is called B-tagging.
One very specific technique in this general process relies on the observation of a secondary vertex a small distance away from a collision point and is called B-tagging. For certain charged objects, the efficacy of using a given velocity-calculating technique in this process in a given momentum range is given by the separation power. Traditional setups carry out this process by stacking four layers: a tracking system, an electromagnetic calorimeter, a hadronic calorimeter, and a muon system. For leptons and photons, this process requires calculating the difference in interaction. For hadrons, it requires simultaneously measuring momentum and velocity, which is used to determine the charge and mass of the object. FTP, name this process by which information left by a subatomic entity passing through a detector is used to figure out what that subatomic entity is.
One very specific technique in this general process relies on the observation of a secondary vertex a small distance away from a collision point and is called B-tagging.
particle identification [or PID; accept "particle detection" before "velocity-calculation techinique"; accept bottom/beauty quark identification/detection before "charged"; prompt on identification; prompt on detection]