Time-Dependent CP Violation Measurements

Time-Dependent CP Violation Measurements
Author: Markus Röhrken
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2013-10-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319007262

This thesis describes a high-quality, high-precision method for the data analysis of an interesting elementary particle reaction. The data was collected at the Japanese B-meson factory KEKB with the Belle detector, one of the most successful large-scale experiments worldwide. CP violation is a subtle quantum effect that makes the world look different when simultaneously left and right and matter and antimatter are exchanged. This being a prerequisite for our own world to have developed from the big bang, there are only a few experimental indications of such effects, and their detection requires very intricate techniques. The discovery of CP violation in B meson decays garnered Kobayashi and Maskawa, who had predicted these findings as early as 1973, the 2008 Nobel prize in physics. This thesis describes in great detail what are by far the best measurements of branching ratios and CP violation parameters in two special reactions with two charm mesons in the final state. It presents an in-depth but accessible overview of the theory, phenomenology, experimental setup, data collection, Monte Carlo simulations, (blind) statistical data analysis, and systematic uncertainty studies.

Discrete Symmetries and CP Violation

Discrete Symmetries and CP Violation
Author: Marco Sozzi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2008-01-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0199296669

This book takes a fresh approach to the teaching of discrete symmetries which are central to fundamental physics: mirror symmetry, matter/anti-matter symmetry, and time reversal. It is self-contained and includes detailed discussions of relevant experiments - conveying some of the fascination and intellectual challenges of experimental physics.

Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies

Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies
Author: Richard Brenner
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2006
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9812566627

The Lepton-Photon symposiums ? as represented by the contributions in this volume ? are among the most popular conferences in high energy physics since they give an in-depth snapshots of the status of the field as provided by leading experts.The volume covers the latest results on flavor factories, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), electroweak physics, dark matter searches, neutrino physics and cosmology, from a phenomenological point of view. It also offers a glimpse of the immediate future of the field through summaries on the status of the next generation of high energy accelerators and planned facilities for astroparticle physics.The review nature of the articles makes the volume particularly useful to students, as well as being of interest to established researches in high-energy physics and related fields.

B Physics And Cp Violation: Bcp4 - Proceedings Of The International Workshop

B Physics And Cp Violation: Bcp4 - Proceedings Of The International Workshop
Author: T Ohshima
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2001-09-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814490776

This book offers the first strong evidence of the existence of CP violation in neutral B decays extracted from sophisticated B factories in the US and Japan. It also holds out the expectation of rare B decays and D, K physics in the near future. In addition, new physics beyond the Standard Model is described. Both experimental and theoretical points of view are given.

Lepton And Photon Interactions At High Energies - Proceedings Of The Xxii International Symposium

Lepton And Photon Interactions At High Energies - Proceedings Of The Xxii International Symposium
Author: Richard Brenner
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2006-01-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814478563

The Lepton-Photon symposiums — as represented by the contributions in this volume — are among the most popular conferences in high energy physics since they give an in-depth snapshots of the status of the field as provided by leading experts.The volume covers the latest results on flavor factories, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), electroweak physics, dark matter searches, neutrino physics and cosmology, from a phenomenological point of view. It also offers a glimpse of the immediate future of the field through summaries on the status of the next generation of high energy accelerators and planned facilities for astroparticle physics.The review nature of the articles makes the volume particularly useful to students, as well as being of interest to established researches in high-energy physics and related fields.

Gauge Theory of Weak Decays

Gauge Theory of Weak Decays
Author: Andrzej Buras
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 739
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107034035

"The ultimate question of elementary particle physics is: What is the fundamental Lagrangian of nature surrounding us? The Lagrangian of the SM is very successful in describing nature at the currently available energy range. The discovery of the Higgs boson completed the particle spectrum of the SM and it is another proof of how well the SM works. Nevertheless the SM cannot be the end of the story and it is for sure not the fundamental Lagrangian of nature. The Lagrangian of the SM looses its validity at the latest at the Planck scale where gravitational effects become noticeable.Most physicists think of the SM as an effective theory that has to be replaced by a more fundamental theory above the TeV scale. What the word effective really means will hopefully be clear at later stages of our book. For the time being we will list some problems and open questions of the SM"--

The Physics of the B Factories

The Physics of the B Factories
Author: Adrian Bevan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783662449905

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.

XX International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies

XX International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies
Author: Juliet Lee-Franzini
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2002
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789810248802

This important book covers topics that are of major interest to the high energy physics community, including the most recent results from flavour factories, dark matter and neutrino physics. In addition, it considers future high energy machines.