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.

List of contents

Foreword.- Preface.- The Facilities.- Tools and Methods.- The Results and Their Interpretation.- Appendices.- BABAR Publications.- Belle Publications.- Bibliography.- Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: Adrian Bevan (Editor), Bostjan Golob (Editor), Thomas Mannel (Editor), Soeren Prell (Editor), Bruce Yabsley (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2016
• EAN: 9783662525920
• ISBN: 978-3-662-52592-0
• No. of pages: 910
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 49 mm x 279 mm
• Weight: 2221 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 910 p. 595 illus., 367 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; 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