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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptz106· OSTI ID:1497097
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  1. Orsay, LAL
  2. Melbourne U.
  3. Cincinnati U.
  4. Munich, Tech. U., Universe
  5. Siegen U.
  6. Munich, Tech. U.
  7. Notre Dame U.
  8. Oxford U., Theor. Phys.; DESY
  9. KIT, Karlsruhe, IKP; KIT, Karlsruhe, TTP
  10. Munich, Tech. U., Universe; Munich, Tech. U.
  11. Queen Mary, U. of London
  12. Regensburg U.
  13. Dortmund U.; Cincinnati U.
  14. TUM-IAS, Munich
  15. Taiwan, Inst. Phys.
  16. Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.
  17. INFN, Rome3; Rome III U.
  18. U. Bern, AEC
  19. PSI, Villigen
  20. Chorzow Observ.; Mainz U., Inst. Phys.
  21. Mississippi U.
  22. INFN, Bari
  23. KIT, Karlsruhe, TTP
  24. Stefan Inst., Ljubljana; Ljubljana U.
  25. Ottawa Carleton Inst. Phys.
  26. Technion
  27. Cornell U., LEPP
  28. Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.; Beijing, GUCAS
  29. Oxford U., Theor. Phys.; CERN
  30. Julich, Forschungszentrum
  31. KEK, Tsukuba; Sokendai, Tsukuba
  32. KMI, Nagoya
  33. KMI, Nagoya; Nagoya U.
  34. ICC, Barcelona U.
  35. Washington U., Seattle
  36. Mainz U., Inst. Kernphys.
  37. Sussex U.
  38. Munich, Max Planck Inst.
  39. Barcelona, Autonoma U.; Barcelona, IFAE
  40. Lima, Pont. U. Catolica
  41. JARA, Aachen
  42. Juntendo U.
  43. Munich, Tech. U.; Liverpool U., Dept. Math.
  44. Fermilab
  45. LBL, Berkeley
  46. Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.
  47. Rome III U.
  48. Lyon, Ecole Normale Superieure
  49. York U., Canada
  50. KEK, Tsukuba
  51. Warsaw U.
  52. Orsay; Orsay, LAL
  53. Moscow, ITEP; Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.; LPI, Moscow (main)
  54. Beijing, GUCAS
  55. Indiana U.; Jefferson Lab
  56. DESY; Humboldt U., Berlin
  57. Wayne State U.
  58. Valencia U., IFIC
  59. INFN, Rome; Rome U.
  60. Vienna, OAW
  61. Stefan Inst., Ljubljana; Ljubljana U.; Regensburg U.
  62. Vienna U.
  63. INFN, Naples; Naples U.
  64. UC, Santa Cruz; LBL, Berkeley
  65. CINVESTAV, IPN
  66. INFN, Turin; Turin U.; Cornell U., LEPP
  67. DESY
  68. Ohio State U.
  69. Rutgers U., Piscataway
  70. Tokyo U.
  71. Kogakuin U.
  72. LPSC, Grenoble
  73. UC, San Diego
  74. Osaka U.
  75. Dortmund U.
  76. Nikhef, Amsterdam
  77. Liverpool U., Dept. Math.
  78. MIT, Cambridge, CTP; Munich, Tech. U.
  79. Cracow, INP
  80. Montreal U.
  81. Seoul U.
  82. U. Heidelberg (main)
  83. U. Edinburgh, Higgs Ctr. Theor. Phys.
  84. Bonn U.
  85. Munich, Max Planck Inst. HLL
  86. Hanoi, Inst. Phys.
  87. Brookhaven
  88. South Carolina U.
  89. Moscow, MIPT
  90. Taras Shevchenko U.
  91. Tabuk, Coll. Technol.
  92. Tata Inst.
  93. KIT, Karlsruhe, ETP
  94. Indian Inst. Tech., Bhubaneswar
  95. Peking U.
  96. Strasbourg, IPHC
  97. Indian Inst. Tech., Madras
  98. Serpukhov, IHEP
  99. LMU Munich (main)
  100. Carnegie Mellon U.
  101. Hawaii U.
  102. Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.
  103. INFN, Pisa; Pisa U.
  104. IISER, Mohali
  105. Indian Inst. Tech., Guwahati
  106. Charles U.
  107. Middle East Tech. U., Ankara
  108. Maribor U.; Stefan Inst., Ljubljana
  109. INFN, Perugia; Perugia U.
  110. Fu Jen Catholic U.
  111. Hefei, CUST
  112. Hanyang U.
  113. Lebedev Inst.
  114. KISTI, Daejeon
  115. Chonnam Natl. U.
  116. Gyeongsang Natl. U.
  117. Indian Inst. Tech., Hyderabad
  118. Frascati
  119. INFN, Turin; Turin U.
  120. Tel Aviv U.
  121. Sinaloa U.
  122. Novosibirsk, IYF; Novosibirsk State U.; Lebedev Inst.
  123. Novosibirsk, IYF; Novosibirsk State U.
  124. PNL, Richland
  125. ENEA, Casaccia
  126. McGill U.
  127. Gottingen U., II. Phys. Inst.
  128. INFN, Trieste; Trieste U.
  129. Beihang U.
  130. Fudan U.
  131. Panjab U.
  132. Virginia Tech.
  133. Nagoya U.
  134. Giessen U.
  135. South Alabama U.
  136. Ljubljana U.; Stefan Inst., Ljubljana
  137. Duke U.
  138. Niigata U.
  139. Nara Women's U.
  140. British Columbia U.
  141. Tokyo U., IPMU
  142. Adelaide U.
  143. New South Wales U.
  144. Tohoku U.
  145. Osaka City U.
  146. Indiana U.
  147. Florida U.
  148. Kyungpook Natl. U.
  149. Tokyo Metropolitan U.
  150. Malaya U.
  151. Korea U.
  152. SoongSil U.
  153. Yonsei U.
  154. Victoria U.
  155. Kennesaw State U.
  156. NIT, Nagpur
  157. INFN, Padua; Padua U.
  158. Seoul Natl. U.
  159. Stefan Inst., Ljubljana
  160. Puebla U., Mexico
  161. Lebedev Inst.; Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.; Moscow, MIPT
  162. Tata Inst.; Utkal U.
  163. Osaka U., Res. Ctr. Nucl. Phys.
  164. Kyoto U.
  165. Pittsburgh U.
  166. Lebedev Inst.; Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.
  167. Luther Coll.
  168. Heidelberg U.
  169. Malaya U.; LMU Munich (main)
  170. Yamagata U.
  171. Munich, Max Planck Inst.; Munich, Tech. U., Universe
  172. IMSc, Chennai
  173. Lebedev Inst.; Moscow, MIPT
  174. Nova Gorica U.
  175. Gifu U.
  176. Chiba U.
  177. Showa Pharmaceutical U.
  178. JAEA, Ibaraki
  179. Chiang Mai U.
  180. Tokyo Inst. Tech.
  181. KEK, Tsukuba; Sokendai, Tsukuba; Tokyo U.
We present the physics program of the Belle II experiment, located on the intensity frontier SuperKEKB e+e- collider. Belle II collected its first collisions in 2018, and is expected to operate for the next decade. It is anticipated to collect 50/ab of collision data over its lifetime. This book is the outcome of a joint effort of Belle II collaborators and theorists through the Belle II theory interface platform (B2TiP), an effort that commenced in 2014. The aim of B2TiP was to elucidate the potential impacts of the Belle II program, which includes a wide scope of physics topics: B physics, charm, tau, quarkonium, electroweak precision measurements and dark sector searches. It is composed of nine working groups (WGs), which are coordinated by teams of theorist and experimentalists conveners: Semileptonic and leptonic B decays, Radiative and Electroweak penguins, phi_1 and phi_2 (time-dependent CP violation) measurements, phi_3 measurements, Charmless hadronic B decay, Charm, Quarkonium(like), tau and low-multiplicity processes, new physics and global fit analyses. This book highlights "golden- and silver-channels", i.e. those that would have the highest potential impact in the field. Theorists scrutinised the role of those measurements and estimated the respective theoretical uncertainties, achievable now as well as prospects for the future. Experimentalists investigated the expected improvements with the large dataset expected from Belle II, taking into account improved performance from the upgraded detector.
Research Organization:
Adelaide U.; Barcelona, Autonoma U.; Barcelona, IFAE; Beihang U.; Beijing, GUCAS; Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.; Bonn U.; British Columbia U.; Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); CERN; CINVESTAV, IPN; Carnegie Mellon U.; Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Charles U.; Chiang Mai U.; Chiba U.; Chonnam Natl. U.; Chorzow Observ.; Cincinnati U.; Cornell U., LEPP; Cracow, INP; DESY; Dortmund U.; Duke U.; ENEA, Casaccia; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Florida U.; Frascati; Fu Jen Catholic U.; Fudan U.; Giessen U.; Gifu U.; Gottingen U., II. Phys. Inst.; Gyeongsang Natl. U.; Hanoi, Inst. Phys.; Hanyang U.; Hawaii U.; Hefei, CUST; Heidelberg U.; Humboldt U., Berlin; ICC, Barcelona U.; IISER, Mohali; IMSc, Chennai; INFN, Bari; INFN, Naples; INFN, Padua; INFN, Perugia; INFN, Pisa; INFN, Rome; INFN, Rome3; INFN, Trieste; INFN, Turin; Indian Inst. Tech., Bhubaneswar; Indian Inst. Tech., Guwahati; Indian Inst. Tech., Hyderabad; Indian Inst. Tech., Madras; Indiana U.; JAEA, Ibaraki; JARA, Aachen; Julich, Forschungszentrum; Juntendo U.; KEK, Tsukuba; KISTI, Daejeon; KIT, Karlsruhe, ETP; KIT, Karlsruhe, IKP; KIT, Karlsruhe, TTP; KMI, Nagoya; Kennesaw State U.; Kogakuin U.; Korea U.; Kyoto U.; Kyungpook Natl. U.; LMU Munich (main); LPI, Moscow (main); LPSC, Grenoble; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Lebedev Inst.; Lima, Pont. U. Catolica; Liverpool U., Dept. Math.; Ljubljana U.; Luther Coll.; Lyon, Ecole Normale Superieure; MIT, Cambridge, CTP; Mainz U., Inst. Kernphys.; Mainz U., Inst. Phys.; Malaya U.; Maribor U.; McGill U.; Melbourne U.; Middle East Tech. U., Ankara; Mississippi U.; Montreal U.; Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.; Moscow, ITEP; Moscow, MIPT; Munich, Max Planck Inst.; Munich, Max Planck Inst. HLL; Munich, Tech. U.; Munich, Tech. U., Universe; NIT, Nagpur; Nagoya U.; Naples U.; Nara Women's U.; New South Wales U.; Niigata U.; Nikhef, Amsterdam; Notre Dame U.; Nova Gorica U.; Novosibirsk State U.; Novosibirsk, IYF; Ohio State U.; Orsay; Orsay, LAL; Osaka City U.; Osaka U.; Osaka U., Res. Ctr. Nucl. Phys.; Ottawa Carleton Inst. Phys.; Oxford U., Theor. Phys.; PSI, Villigen; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Padua U.; Panjab U.; Peking U.; Perugia U.; Pisa U.; Pittsburgh U.; Puebla U., Mexico; Queen Mary, U. of London; Regensburg U.; Rome III U.; Rome U.; Rutgers U., Piscataway; Seoul Natl. U.; Seoul U.; Serpukhov, IHEP; Showa Pharmaceutical U.; Siegen U.; Sinaloa U.; Sokendai, Tsukuba; SoongSil U.; South Alabama U.; South Carolina U.; Stefan Inst., Ljubljana; Strasbourg, IPHC; Sussex U.; TUM-IAS, Munich; Tabuk, Coll. Technol.; Taiwan, Inst. Phys.; Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.; Taras Shevchenko U.; Tata Inst.; Technion; Tel Aviv U.; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Tohoku U.; Tokyo Inst. Tech.; Tokyo Metropolitan U.; Tokyo U.; Tokyo U., IPMU; Trieste U.; Turin U.; U. Bern, AEC; U. Edinburgh, Higgs Ctr. Theor. Phys.; U. Heidelberg (main); UC, San Diego; UC, Santa Cruz; Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States); Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Utkal U.; Valencia U., IFIC; Victoria U.; Vienna U.; Vienna, OAW; Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Virginia Tech.; Warsaw U.; Washington U., Seattle; Wayne State U.; Yamagata U.; Yonsei U.; York U., Canada
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation (NSF); US Department of Energy; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
Belle II Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-07CH11359; AC05-06OR23177; AC06-76RL01830; FG02-00ER41132; SC0007983; SC0009973; SC0010118; SC0010504; SC0011637; SC0011726; SC0011784; SC0012391; SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1497097
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1607360
OSTI ID: 1632133
OSTI ID: 1755756
OSTI ID: 1774008
OSTI ID: 1594376
Report Number(s):
BELLE2-PUB-PH-2018-001; FERMILAB-PUB-18-398-T; INT-PUB-18-047; JLAB-THY-18-2780; KEK Preprint 2018-27; UWThPh 2018-26; oai:inspirehep.net:1692393; arXiv:1808.10567
Journal Information:
PTEP, Journal Name: PTEP Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 2019
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English