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Description
B-Lab is an open data analysis program to give members of the public a taste of particle physics by presenting tools to search real experimental data for particle decays. This program started as an outreach program for Belle experiment, targeting high school students. It utilizes an adapted data sample of 1.3 /fb of the real experimental e+e- collisions accumulated at KEK by the Belle detector.
The data is provided in ROOT format, and includes the 4-vector, charge and particle identification of particles from these collisions. The analysis is done using ROOT with simple C++ source code examples, which may be adapted for the reconstruction of various combinations of particles. Students are provided with instructive examples, and then given tasks to complete using the B-Lab interface. The public use of B-Lab began in 2004, and since then, more than 1200 people have participated in the program. We report the results of the particle searches, and discuss the impacts of and potential improvements are considering for B-Lab.
We also want to introduce "BellePlus", a 4-day summer program for high school students held annually at KEK. The purpose of this workshop style program is to give an experience of researchers to students, and B-Lab is used as one of the studies in this program. We will also discuss our plans to use B-Lab as an outreach program for Belle II.
