The Physics of the B Factories

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-3-662-44990-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 910 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 24121 g

This comprehensive work thoroughly introduces and reviews the set of results from Belle and BaBar - after more than two decades of independent and complementary work - all the way from the detectors and the analysis tools used, up to the physics results, and the interpretation of these results.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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bevan, Adrian

Mannel, Thomas

Golob, Bostjan

Yabsley, Bruce

Prell, Soeren

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Kernphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Hochenergiephysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.- Preface.- The Facilities.- Tools and Methods.- The Results and Their Interpretation.- Appendices.- BABAR Publications.- Belle Publications.- Bibliography.- Index.