The Physics of the B Factories
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-662-52592-0 (ISBN)
The world's two giant B Factory collaborations, Belle at KEK and BaBar at SLAC, have successfully completed their main mission to discover and quantify CP violation in the decays of B mesons. CP violation is a necessary requirement to distinguish unambiguously between matter and antimatter. The shared primary objective of the two B Factory experiments was to determine the shape of the so-called unitarity triangle, an abstract triangle representing interactions of quarks, the elementary constituents of matter. The area of the triangle is a measure of the amount of CP violation associated with the weak force.
Many other measurements have been performed by the B Factories and are also discussed in this work.
Part I The Facilities.- The B Factories.- The Detectors and Collaborations.- Datataking and Monte Carlo Production summary.- Part II Tools and Methods.- Vertexing.- Analysis optimization.- Particle identification.- Flavor tagging.- Background discrimination.- B-meson reconstruction.- Mixing and time-dependent analysis.- Maximum likelihood fitting.- Angular analysis.- Dalitz analysis.- Blind analysis.- Systematic error estimation.- Part III The Results and their Interpretation.- The CKM matrix and the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism.- B-physics.- Quarkonium physics.- Charm physics.- Tau physics.- QED and initial state radiation studies.- Two-photon physics.- Y(5S) physics.- QCD-related physics.- Global interpretation.- Glossary.- Index.
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.10.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | XXII, 910 p. 595 illus., 367 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | Berlin |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 210 x 279 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie | |
Schlagworte | BaBar and Belle Experiments • baryon asymmetry • B-Factories • B-Factory Collaborations • CKM Matrix and Unitarity Triangle • Cosmology • CP Violation in B-meson Systems • Measurement Science and Instrumentation • Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics • Particle and high-energy physics • Physics • Physics and Astronomy • Relativity physics • Scientific standards, measurement etc |
ISBN-10 | 3-662-52592-5 / 3662525925 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-662-52592-0 / 9783662525920 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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