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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.
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Book Title: The Physics of the B Factories
Editors: Adrian Bevan, Bostjan Golob, Thomas Mannel, Soeren Prell, Bruce Yabsley
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2015
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-44990-5Published: 23 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52592-0Published: 12 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-44991-2Due: 14 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 910
Number of Illustrations: 228 b/w illustrations, 367 illustrations in colour
Topics: Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Cosmology, Measurement Science and Instrumentation