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B-factory

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In particle physics, a B-factory, or sometimes a beauty factory, is a particle collider experiment designed to produce and detect a large number of B mesons so that their properties and behaviour can be measured with small statistical uncertainty. [1]

23 relations: B meson, BaBar experiment, B–Bbar oscillation, Belle experiment, Belle II experiment, Bottomness, Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, California, Collider, CP violation, D meson, Frascati, HERA-B, Kaon, KEKB (accelerator), Measurement uncertainty, Particle physics, Rome, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, SuperB, Tau (particle), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Upsilon meson.

B meson

In particle physics, B mesons are mesons composed of a bottom antiquark and either an up, down, strange or charm quark.

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BaBar experiment

The BaBar experiment, or simply BaBar, is an international collaboration of more than 500 physicists and engineers studying the subatomic world at energies of approximately ten times the rest mass of a proton (~10 GeV).

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B–Bbar oscillation

Neutral B meson oscillations (or – oscillations) is one of the manifestations of the neutral particle oscillation, a fundamental prediction of the Standard Model of particle physics.

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Belle experiment

The Belle experiment was a particle physics experiment conducted by the Belle Collaboration, an international collaboration of more than 400 physicists and engineers, at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation (KEK) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

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Belle II experiment

The Belle II experiment is a particle physics experiment designed to study the properties of B mesons (heavy particles containing a bottom quark).

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Bottomness

In physics, bottomness (symbol B&prime) or beauty is a flavour quantum number reflecting the difference between the number of bottom antiquarks (n) and the number of bottom quarks (n) that are present in a particle: Bottom quarks have (by convention) a bottomness of −1 while bottom antiquarks have a bottomness of +1.

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Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix

In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, CKM matrix, quark mixing matrix, or KM matrix is a unitary matrix which contains information on the strength of flavour-changing weak decays.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Collider

A collider is a type of particle accelerator involving directed beams of particles.

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CP violation

In particle physics, CP violation is a violation of CP-symmetry (or charge conjugation parity symmetry): the combination of C-symmetry (charge conjugation symmetry) and P-symmetry (parity symmetry).

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D meson

The D mesons are the lightest particle containing charm quarks.

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Frascati

Frascati is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy.

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HERA-B

HERA-B was a particle physics detector of the HERA accelerator at DESY.

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Kaon

In particle physics, a kaon, also called a K meson and denoted,The positively charged kaon used to be called τ+ and θ+, as it was supposed to be two different particles until the 1960s.

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KEKB (accelerator)

KEKB is a particle accelerator used in the Belle experiment to study CP violation.

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Measurement uncertainty

In metrology, measurement uncertainty is a non-negative parameter characterizing the dispersion of the values attributed to a measured quantity.

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Particle physics

Particle physics (also high energy physics) is the branch of physics that studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter and radiation.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under the programmatic direction of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and located in Menlo Park, California.

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SuperB

SuperB was a proposed high-luminosity electron-positron collider that was cancelled by the Italian government on 27 November 2012.

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Tau (particle)

The tau (τ), also called the tau lepton, tau particle, or tauon, is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with negative electric charge and a 2.

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Tsukuba, Ibaraki

is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

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Upsilon meson

The Upsilon meson is a quarkonium state (i.e. flavourless meson) formed from a bottom quark and its antiparticle.

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B Factory, B factory, B-Factory, Beauty factory.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-factory

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