HERA-B: physics potential and prospects
Abstract
HERA-B is a hadroproduction experiment located at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. The experiment produces B mesons and baryons by inserting thin wire targets into the halo of the proton beam circulating in the HERA storage ring. The B decays are studied to search for evidence of CP violation and constrain the angle β and possibly γ and α of the CKM unitarity triangle. The experiment also produces B s mesons; these decays are studied to measure or constrain the mass difference Δ ms and width difference Δ Γs between the two Bs0/ B¯s0 mass eigenstates. Finally, the large number of B's produced allows HERA-B to search for rare and forbidden decays such as B→ K(∗)l1+l2-. The experiment is scheduled to begin running in early 2000.
- Publication:
-
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Pub Date:
- May 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0168-9002(00)00012-7
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ex/9912012
- Bibcode:
- 2000NIMPA.446..199S
- Keywords:
-
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 16 pages, 8 tables, contribution to BEAUTY'99: 6th International Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines, Bled, Slovenia, June 1999