Speaker
Ewan Chin Hill
(University of Victoria (CA))
Description
The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider in Tsukuba, Japan began physics data taking in 2019. With a target integrated luminosity of 50 ab-1, Belle II aims to record a data sample that is roughly 40-100 times larger than its predecessors thus enabling some uniquely high-precision studies of b-quark, c-quark, and tau-lepton physics. The experiment provides an interesting environment to search for a wide variety of dark sector particles, possible dark matter candidates, and other low-mass particles predicted by theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. In this talk, I will summarize recent Belle II physics result based on the initial data taking, and discuss future prospects for the experiment.
