CP Violation in {B_s}^0 -> J/psi.phi Decays

CP Violation in {B_s}^0 -> J/psi.phi Decays
Author: Sabato Leo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319079298

This thesis reports on the final measurement of the flavor-mixing phase in decays of strange-bottom mesons (B_s) into J/psi and phi mesons performed in high-energy proton-antiproton collisions recorded by the Collider Experiment at Fermilab. Interference occurs between direct decays and decays following virtual particle-antiparticle transitions (B_s-antiB_s). The phase difference between transition amplitudes (“mixing phase”) is observable and extremely sensitive to contributions from non-standard-model particles or interactions that may be very hard to detect otherwise – a fact that makes the precise measurement of the B_s mixing phase one of the most important goals of particle physics. The results presented include a precise determination of the mixing phase and a suite of other important supplementary results. All measurements are among the most precise available from a single experiment and provide significantly improved constraints on the phenomenology of new particles and interactions.

Exploring Fundamental Particles

Exploring Fundamental Particles
Author: Lincoln Wolfenstein
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2010-09-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1439836132

The search for the elementary constituents of the physical universe and the interactions between them has transformed over time and continues to evolve today, as we seek answers to questions about the existence of stars, galaxies, and humankind. Integrating both theoretical and experimental work, Exploring Fundamental Particles traces the developme

Issues in General Physics Research: 2013 Edition

Issues in General Physics Research: 2013 Edition
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Publisher: ScholarlyEditions
Total Pages: 1176
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1490109528

Issues in General Physics Research / 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Quantum Physics. The editors have built Issues in General Physics Research: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Quantum Physics in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in General Physics Research: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

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.

CP Violation

CP Violation
Author: Gustavo C. Branco
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1999
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780198503996

The violation of charge-conjugation and parity symmetries is a leading area of research in particle and nuclear physics, with important implications for understanding the generation of matter in the universe. This book provides a self-contained introduction and is designed to bring beginning researchers to the forefront of the field.

Particle Physics Reference Library

Particle Physics Reference Library
Author: Herwig Schopper
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2020
Genre: Heavy ions
ISBN: 3030382079

This first open access volume of the handbook series contains articles on the standard model of particle physics, both from the theoretical and experimental perspective. It also covers related topics, such as heavy-ion physics, neutrino physics and searches for new physics beyond the standard model. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the "Particle Physics Reference Library" provides revised and updated contributions based on previously published material in the well-known Landolt-Boernstein series on particle physics, accelerators and detectors (volumes 21A, B1,B2,C), which took stock of the field approximately one decade ago. Central to this new initiative is publication under full open access