B Factories are particle colliders at which specific subatomic particles - B mesons - are produced abundantly. The purpose is to study the properties of their decays in great detail in order to shed light on a mystery of eminently larger scale: why do we live in a universe composed of anti-matter? This book introduces readers to the physics laws of the CP asymmetry, touching on experimental requirements needed to perform such measurements at the subatomic level, and illustrating the main findings of the contemporary B Factories.
Author(s): Boštjan Golob
Series: IOP Concise Physics
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 120
City: Bristol
PRELIMS.pdf
Preface
Acknowledgements
Author biography
Boštjan Golob
CH001.pdf
Chapter 1 Into the B world
1.1 Heavy particles
1.1.1 Concept of elementary particles
1.1.2 Quark world
1.1.3 B mesons
1.2 Weak liaison
1.2.1 Weak interaction
1.2.2 Parity
1.2.3 Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa
1.3 Frontiers
References
CH002.pdf
Chapter 2 Into the mirror
2.1 C and P
2.2 Strange particles
2.3 Humans, not antihumans
2.3.1 Sakharov conditions
2.3.2 Small and large
References
CH003.pdf
Chapter 3 Down the rabbit hole
3.1 Accelerating science
3.1.1 Acceleration
3.1.2 B factories
3.2 Quantum measurements
3.2.1 Momentum
3.2.2 Identification
3.2.3 Compactification
3.3 Entanglement
3.3.1 BBbar
3.3.2 Evolution in time
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CH004.pdf
Chapter 4 Outcome
4.1 Method…
4.1.1 … ①, …
4.1.2 …②, …
4.1.3 and ③
4.2 Result
4.2.1 First numbers
4.2.2 The meaning
4.2.3 Recent numbers
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CH005.pdf
Chapter 5 Into the new era
5.1 The heritage
5.2 Strong and weak
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