B Factories

Abstract

The B factories were constructed with a very specific purpose in mind: to test the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa description of quark mixing and CP violation in the Standard Model of particle physics. The goals of testing this part of the Standard Model were achieved, and have been surpassed beyond all expectation. As a result the B factories have revolutionised our understanding of many areas of the Standard Model of particle physics, and also provide a number of stringent limits on possible scenarios of physics beyond the Standard Model. In some cases these limits on new physics effects equal or surpass those achievable at the CERN based Large Hadron Collider.

arXiv comment9 pages, 1 figure, published in Comptes Rendus Physique

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• Observation of a narrow charmonium-like state in exclusive B+ -> K+ pi+pi- J/psi decays
• Observation of a New Narrow Charmonium State in Exclusive B+-->K+ pi+pi- J/psi Decays
• The BABAR Detector
• Observation of a Broad Structure in the ${\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}J/\psi$ Mass Spectrum around 4.26 GeV/$c^2$
• Observation of Large CP Violation in the Neutral B Meson System
• Observation of CP violation in the B^0 meson system
• Precise measurement of the e+ e- to pi+ pi- (gamma) cross section with the Initial State Radiation method at BABAR
• Evidence for D0-anti-D0 Mixing
• Observation of the bottomonium ground state in the decay Upsilon(3S) -> gamma eta_b
• b -> s Transitions: A New Frontier for Indirect SUSY Searches
• Observation of Time-Dependent CP Violation in B0 -> eta' K0 Decays and Improved Measurements of CP Asymmetries in B0 -> phiK0, KsKsKs and B0 -> J/psi K0 Decays
• Observation of B+ -> rho+ rho0
• A Study of B0 to rho+rho- Decays and Constraints on the CKM Angle alpha
• Measurement of the branching fraction, polarization, and CP asymmetry for B0->rho+rho- decays, and determination of the CKM phase phi_2
• Measurement of time dependent CP asymmetry parameters in B0 meson decays to omega K0S, eta'K0, and pi0K0S
• Improved Measurement of $B^{+}\to {\rho }^{+}{\rho }^0$ and Determination of the Quark-Mixing Phase Angle $\alpha$
• Measurement of $B^0\to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ Decays and Search for $B^0\to {\rho }^0{\rho }^0$
• Measurements of time-dependent CP violation in B^0 -> psi(2S) K_S decays

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