Physics Results from RICH Detectors

Abstract

RICH detectors have become extraordinarily useful. Results include measurement of solar neutrino rates, evidence for neutrino oscillations, measurement of TeV gamma-rays from gravitational sources, properties of QCD, charm production and decay, and measurement of the CKM matrix elements Vcs, Vcb and Vub. A new value |Vub/Vcb|=0.087+/-0.012 is determined.

Invited talk at ``The 3rd International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors," Ein-Gedi, Dead-Sea, Israel, Nov. 15-20, 1998, 21 pages, 22 figs

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