The physics program of a high-luminosity asymmetric B Factory at SLAC

Technical Report · Sun Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5287044· OSTI ID:5287044

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. The B Factory will also carry out a varied, high-quality program of studies of other aspects of the physics of b quarks, as well as high-precision measurements in {tau} and charm physics. We describe a detailed series of measurements to be carried out in the first few years at a peak luminosity of 3 {times} 10{sup 33} cm{sup -2}sec{sup -1}, the initial luminosity goal of the B Factory, as well as the program accessible to a larger data sample.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098; AC03-81ER40050
• OSTI ID: 5287044
• Report Number(s): SLAC-353; LBL-PUB--5245; CALT--68-1588; ON: DE90004450
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
B MESONS
BEAM LUMINOSITY
BEAUTY PARTICLES
BOSONS
CHARM PARTICLES
CP INVARIANCE
DECAY
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
FIELD THEORIES
HADRONS
HEAVY LEPTONS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
KOBAYASHI-MASKAWA MATRIX
LEPTONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATRICES
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MESONS
MODIFICATIONS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PEP STORAGE RINGS
POSTULATED PARTICLES
PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS
RADIATION DETECTORS
SHOWER COUNTERS
STANDARD MODEL
STORAGE RINGS
TAU PARTICLES
UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES