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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 matter and no 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.

Meson factories. --- Particle & high-energy physics. --- SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.

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This comprehensive work thoroughly introduces and reviews the set of results from Belle and BaBar - after more than two decades of independent and complementary work - all the way from the detectors and the analysis tools used, up to the physics results, and the interpretation of these results. The world’s two giant B Factory collaborations, Belle at KEK and BaBar at SLAC, have successfully completed their main mission to discover and quantify CP violation in the decays of B mesons. CP violation is a necessary requirement to distinguish unambiguously between matter and antimatter. The shared primary objective of the two B Factory experiments was to determine the shape of the so-called unitarity triangle, an abstract triangle representing interactions of quarks, the elementary constituents of matter. The area of the triangle is a measure of the amount of CP violation associated with the weak force. Many other measurements have been performed by the B Factories and are also discussed in this work.

Meson factories. --- Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- B facilities (Nuclear physics) --- B factories (Nuclear physics) --- Facilities, Meson --- Factories, Meson --- Meson facilities --- Linear accelerators

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This book offers the first strong evidence of the existence of CP violation in neutral B decays extracted from sophisticated B factories in the US and Japan. It also holds out the expectation of rare B decays and D, K physics in the near future. In addition, new physics beyond the Standard Model is described. Both experimental and theoretical points of view are given.

B mesons --- Meson factories --- CP violation (Nuclear physics) --- B facilities (Nuclear physics) --- B factories (Nuclear physics) --- Facilities, Meson --- Factories, Meson --- Meson facilities --- Linear accelerators --- Beauty mesons --- Bottom mesons --- Mesons