The Physics of the B Factories

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662525925
• ISBN13: 9783662525920
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 910 Pages
• Weight: 4.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 8.3" x 11.0"