The Physics Program of a High-Luminosity Asymmetric B Factory at SLAC

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1454055· OSTI ID:1454055

Dorfan, J. ^[1]

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1. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

A high-luminosity asymmetric energy B Factory, proposed as an upgrade to the PEP storage ring at SLAC, provides the best opportunity to study CP violation as a means of testing the consistency of the Standard Model. If the phenomenon of CP violation is explained by the Standard Model simply through the non-zero angles and phase of the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix, then there are precise relations between the K-M parameters and the various measurable CP-violating asymmetries in B meson decay. Should these consistency relations fail, the origin of CP violation must lie outside the Standard Model framework. Our measurements would then lead to the first experiment-driven extensions of the Standard Model.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515; AC03-76SF00098; AC03-81-ER40050
• OSTI ID: 1454055
• Report Number(s): SLAC-R-353; LBL PUB-5245; CALT-68-1588; UC-414
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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