Speaker
Dr
Jared Yamaoka
(Pacific Northwest National Lab)
Description
The Belle II experiment is now being constructed
at the KEK laboratory in Japan. This project represents
a substantial upgrade to both the Belle detector and
the KEKB accelerator. The Belle II experiment will
record 50~ab$^{-1}$ of data, a factor of 50 more than
that recorded by the Belle experiment. This large data set,
combined with the low backgrounds and high trigger
efficiencies characteristic of an $e^+e^-$ experiment,
should provide unprecedented sensitivity to new physics
signatures in $B$ and $D$ meson decays, and in $\tau$
lepton decays. The experiment is scheduled to begin taking
data in 2016. This talk will review the capabilities of
the experiment, the expected sensitivity to new physics,
and the current status of detector construction.
Primary author
Dr
Jared Yamaoka
(Pacific Northwest National Lab)
