Introduction to BEPC II

by Chen Hesheng (Director, IHEP, Beijing)

Tuesday 31 Jul 2001, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Results from BEPC/BES answer many interesting questions and also indicate that there is further important physics to be studied in the t -charm threshold energy region. IHEP Beijing is going to make a major upgrade of BEPC, so called BEPC II, to increase the luminosity of the machine by two orders of magnitude, and to improve the performance of BES significantly. An additional storage ring will be built inside the BEPC tunnel to cross the existing storage ring with a large angle crossing of 11 mrad. The design luminosity is 10³³ cm^-2s^-1 at 3.1 GeV. BEPC II aims for precision measurements in the t -charm threshold region and to search for new physics phenomena. The Chinese Government has agreed to support the project. The physics goals, the design of the machine and the detector will be reported.

Organiser(s): Jasper Kirkby / EP Division

Note: Tea & coffee will be served at 16.00 hrs.