Speaker
Prof.
Steven Olsen
(Seoul National U.)
Description
BESIII is a new, state-of-the-art 4π detector at the recently upgraded BEPCII two-ring e+e- collider at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Beijing. The detector has been in operation for nearly three years, during which time it collected the world’s largest data samples of J/ψ, ψ’ and ψ(3770) decays. These data are being used to make interesting and unique studies of light-hadron spectroscopy, precisión charmonium physics and high-statistics measurements of D meson decays. Order-of-magnitude increases in these data samples, as well as a large data set at a cm energy above the Ds+Ds- threshold are planned for the near future. This talk will give early results on light hadron and charmonium physics as well as prospects for future results for these as well as for charmed meson physics.
