UK B-Factory Symposium

Wednesday 1 Apr 2009, 12:30 → 18:00 GMT

Physics Lecture Theater (PLT) (Department of Physics)

This is an IoP Half Day meeting reviewing the past 10 years of progress and looking forward to the future of heavy flavor physics as influenced by the results of the BaBar experiment. The work of the B-factories, BaBar and Belle, was mentioned in the Nobel Prize for Physics announcement for 2008. Both BaBar and Belle were built to test the CKM theory of CP violation. Not only have they out done all expectations in this area, but they have performed hundreds of other interesting measurements using the enormous data sets that have been collected. During the coming decade we will see many final publications from BaBar, as well as the advent of Flavour Physics from the LHC, and in particular LHCb.

12:30 → 13:00 break

13:00 → 15:10 Session A

13:00 Welcome

13:10 Experimental overview of Babar Physics

Speaker: Prof. Steven Playfer (University of Edinburgh)

Slides playfer.pdf

13:40 Theoretical Overview

Speaker: Dr Einan Gardi (University of Edinburgh)

Slides Gardi.pdf

14:05 Lattice overview

Speaker: Prof. Christine Davies (University of Glasgow)

Slides davies.pdf

14:30 CP Violation in B decay

Speaker: Dr Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary, University of London)

Slides bevan.pdf

14:50 Charm Mixing

Speaker: Dr Carlos Chavez (University of Liverpool)

Slides Charm-Mixing.pdf Charm-Mixing.ppt

15:10 → 15:40 break

15:40 → 17:40 Session B

15:40 Radiative B Decays

Speaker: Dr Deborah Bard (Imperial College, London)

Slides djbard.pdf djbard.ppt

16:00 Semi-leptonic decays

Speaker: Dr Roberto Sacco (Queen Mary, University of London)

Slides sacco.pdf

16:20 Tau physics

Speaker: Prof. Roger Barlow (University of Manchester)

Slides BaBarTau.pdf BaBarTau.ppt

16:40 Charmless B Decays

Speaker: Thomas Latham (University of Warwick-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides latham.pdf latham.pptx

17:00 Flavour Physics potential of LHCb

Speaker: Prof. Andrei Golutvin (Imperial College, London)

Slides BaBar_Symp_Apr2009.pdf BaBar_Symp_Apr2009.ppt

17:20 Summary

Speaker: Prof. Paul Harrison (University of Warwick)

Slides summary2.pdf

17:40 → 17:40 End of meeting