The Physics of the B Factories

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.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Thomas Mannel (Herausgeber), Bruce Yabsley (Herausgeber), Bostjan Golob (Herausgeber), Soeren Prell (Herausgeber), Adrian Bevan (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2016
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Physik, Astronomie > Atomphysik, Kernphysik
• EAN: 9783662525920
• ISBN: 978-3-662-52592-0
• Anzahl Seiten: 910
• Illustration: XXII, 910 p. 595 illus., 367 illus. in color.
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 21 x 4.9 x 27.9 cm
• Gewicht (Verpackung): 2’221 g
• Themen: B, Measurement, Cosmology, Physics and Astronomy, Accelerator Physics, Particle acceleration, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Relativity physics, Scientific standards, measurement etc, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Physical measurements