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BaBar’s First Steps

Explore the quest to understand anti-matter disappearance in this insightful presentation highlighting recent findings in particle physics. Delve into CP Violation, rare decay events, and the crucial role of BaBar collaboration.

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BaBar’s First Steps

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  1. BaBar’s First Steps Tim Adye Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Particle Physics Department Meeting 19th January 2001 Tim Adye

  2. Where did all the anti-matter go? • Nature treats matter and anti-matter identically • So far, just one exception seen • Certain rare decays of the K-meson differ slightly between K and anti-K. • Discovered in 1964 • To understand it, we need another example • Should also be able to see the effect in B-meson decays • If this “CP Violation” is large enough, it could help explain why the Universe is made of just matter. • Maybe the antimatter decayed • Otherwise, how to explain where all the antimatter went? Tim Adye

  3. What are we looking for? We are are looking for a subtle effect in a rare(and difficult to identify) decay, so need to record the results of a large number of events. • Look for specific B-meson decays • 1 in 100,000 B-decays Tim Adye

  4. BaBar performance 26 24 Delivered 22 PEPII Delivered Luminosity 20 Total Recorded Luminosity Off-peak Recorded Luminosity 18 Recorded 16 14 Integrated Luminosity (fb-1) / million BB events 12 10 Earlier Expectation 8 6 4 2 0 6/1/99 7/1/99 8/1/99 9/1/99 1/1/00 2/1/00 4/1/00 5/1/00 6/1/00 7/1/00 8/1/00 9/1/00 3/1/00 10/1/99 11/1/99 12/1/99 10/1/00 11/1/00 Tim Adye

  5. B Factories • In four(good)days, we are now recording more than ARGUS did in 10 years! • BaBar and Belle have many more years to accumulate events (with increasing rate) * LEP I; similarly for other LEP experiments Tim Adye

  6. The BaBar Detector Tim Adye

  7. The BaBar Collaboration(quite a bit of it, anyway) Tim Adye

  8. What we do in PPD • We help ensure that BaBar can cope with all these events • Boda, Neil, and Stefy wrote/support a major component of the online system (Run Control) • Top-level control system for the detector operation • Tim manages the data exports throughout the collaboration in the US and Europe • Tim and Neil (with ITD) run UK Analysis centre • 4 TB of BaBar data on disk at RAL (6500 CD-ROMs, 2000 PC hard disks) • After SLAC, only RAL and Lyon have all the BaBar data • Neil produces simulated events on the ITD compute farm • Physics studies need more simulated data than real data • RAL contributes 10% (and growing) of the total Tim Adye

  9. What we do in PPD • And of course, we use all this data to do Physics (Gian, Stefy,…) ... Tim Adye

  10. Conclusion • BaBar’s first couple of years have been highly productive. • Potential to be the worlds’ best • First results presented at Osaka last July • First publication in a few weeks… • PPD has made a major contribution, especially in the data acquisition and development of a distributed computing analysis model. Tim Adye

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