The Physics of the B Factories

ISBN-13: 9783662449905 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 910 str.

Adrian Bevan; Thomas Mannel; Bruce Yabsley

Opis

This comprehensive work thoroughly introduces and reviews the set ofresults from Belle and BaBar - aftermore than two decades of independent and complementarywork - all theway from the detectors and theanalysis tools used, up to the physicsresults, and the interpretationof these results.The world s two giant B Factorycollaborations, Belle at KEK and BaBar at SLAC, have successfullycompleted theirmain mission to discover and quantify CP violation in the decays of B mesons. CP violation is a necessary requirement to distinguish unambiguously between matterand antimatter. The shared primary objective of the two B Factory experiments was to determine the shape of the so-calledunitarity triangle, an abstract triangle representing interactionsof quarks, the elementary constituents ofmatter. The areaof the triangle is a measure of the amount of CPviolation associated with the weakforce.Many other measurements have been performed by the B Factories and are also discussed in this work."

Spis treści

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.