Belle status and prospects

✍ Scribed by Takanori Hara

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 518 KB
• Volume: 120
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)01916-9

✦ Synopsis

For the Belle Collaboration

We review the current status and the future perspectives of the Belle experiment and KEKB asymmetric e+ecollider.

Thanks to many efforts of Belle collaborators and KEKB accelerator staffs, we could accumulate a 41.8 fb-' data by the end of 2001 (more than 80 fb-' data by the end of summer, 2002), also the KEKB recorded the highest peak luminosity (7.35 x 1O33 crn-'s-l ) in the world. Furthermore, the Super KEKB project is being proposed not only to extract the CP violation parameters and moduluses of the CKM matrix with high accuracy, but-also to search for B rare decays and explore beyond the Standard Model.