Speaker
Prof.
David Hitlin
(Caltech)
Description
The SuperB collider is a novel asymmetric e+e- collider, capable of reaching luminosities beyond 10^36 cm-2s-1 with beam currents comparable to those at the current generation B factories. Many of the components of the PEP-II collider can be used in SuperB. The low currents also allow the use of BABAR as the basis for a detector upgrade. The very high luminosity, together with the ability to have a polarized electron beam and to run at energies that are optimal for b, c and tau physics, allows SuperB to sensitively search for New Physics effects such as lepton flavor violation, anomalous CP-violating asymmetries, and CP violation in DDbar mixing processes.
The current status of the SuperB project will be described.
Author
Prof.
David Hitlin
(Caltech)
