scholarly journals Alignment and Calibration of the Belle II Detector

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 01040
Author(s):  
Tadeáၡ Bilka ◽  
Kirill Chilikin ◽  
David Dossett ◽  
Yinghui Guan ◽  
Jakub Kandra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drift Chamber ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Vertex Detector ◽  
Alignment Procedure ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
Electron Positron ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Belle Ii

In spring 2018 the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider at High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan) will deliver its first collisions to the Belle II experiment. The aim of Belle II is to collect a data sample 50 times larger than the previous generation of BFactories taking advantage of the unprecedented SuperKEKB design luminosity of 8×1035cm-2s-1. The Belle II detector will allow to conduct precise measurements in the harsh collider environment, probing for signs of physics beyond the standard model at the precision frontier. In order to deliver data suitable for physics analysis, the detector has to be properly calibrated on a regular basis. Among other calibrations the detector alignment plays a key role. For example, precise measurements of time dependent CP-violation rely on the accurate alignment of the new vertex detector, as well as on the determination of the beamspot position and size. To automate the calibration procedures and manage the large amount of data and processing power needed for detector calibration, a software framework has been developed which allows to define the complete workflow and to execute it on a computing cluster. The framework integrates the Millepede II algorithm to solve the large minimization problem emerging in the track-based alignment and calibration of the pixel and strip detector, the central drift chamber, and the muon system. The first collision data will allow to test and to further improve and tune the alignment and calibration procedures. Although the vertexing capabilities will be limited due to the installation of only a small slice of the full vertex detector, the commissioning phase will allow to test most of the alignment procedure features and to prepare for the full operation. We will present the results achieved during the first data taking, the experience gained and the plans for the first physics run with the full detector.

scholarly journals High Energy Colliding Beams; What Is Their Future?

2014 ◽  
Vol 07 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burton Richter
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Electron Positron ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
To Come ◽  
Colliding Beams

The success of the first few years of LHC operations at CERN, and the expectation of more to come as the LHC's performance improves, are already leading to discussions of what should be next for both proton–proton and electron–positron colliders. In this discussion I see too much theoretical desperation caused by the so-far-unsuccessful hunt for what is beyond the Standard Model, and too little of the necessary interaction of the accelerator, experimenter, and theory communities necessary for a scientific and engineering success. Here, I give my impressions of the problem, its possible solution, and what is needed to have both a scientifically productive and financially viable future.

scholarly journals Belle II virtual reality projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 02028
Author(s):  
Michael Bender ◽  
Thomas Kuhr ◽  
Leo Piilonen
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Precise Measurement ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Head Mounted Display ◽  
Electron Positron ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Education And Outreach ◽  
Belle Ii ◽  
Lepton Decays ◽  
Positron Collisions

The Belle II experiment, based in Japan, is designed for the precise measurement of B- and charm-meson as well as τ-lepton decays and is intended to play an important role in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. To visualize the collected data, amongst other things, virtual reality (VR) appli-cations are used within the collaboration. In addition to the already existing VR application which runs on a head-mounted display (HMD), an implementation for the cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE) has been created, where the CAVE is an immersive VR environment, in which projectors are directed to up to six walls of a room-sized cube. These VR applications allow for the inspection of the Belle II detector itself, as well as the illustration of GEANT4 simulated (and data) events of the electron-positron collisions occurring at the SuperKEKB collider. The VR implementations are not only limited to the use within the Belle II collaboration, but are a helpful tool in education and outreach activities.

scholarly journals Effective operator bases for beyond Standard Model scenarios: an EFT compendium for discoveries

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Upalaparna Banerjee ◽  
Joydeep Chakrabortty ◽  
Suraj Prakash ◽  
Shakeel Ur Rahaman ◽  
Michael Spannowsky
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Minimal Extension ◽  
Effective Operator ◽  
Abelian Gauge ◽  
Gauge Symmetries ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Mass Dimension

Abstract It is not only conceivable but likely that the spectrum of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) is non-degenerate. The lightest non-SM particle may reside close enough to the electroweak scale that it can be kinematically probed at high-energy experiments and on account of this, it must be included as an infrared (IR) degree of freedom (DOF) along with the SM ones. The rest of the non-SM particles are heavy enough to be directly experimentally inaccessible and can be integrated out. Now, to capture the effects of the complete theory, one must take into account the higher dimensional operators constituted of the SM DOFs and the minimal extension. This construction, BSMEFT, is in the same spirit as SMEFT but now with extra IR DOFs. Constructing a BSMEFT is in general the first step after establishing experimental evidence for a new particle. We have investigated three different scenarios where the SM is extended by additional (i) uncolored, (ii) colored particles, and (iii) abelian gauge symmetries. For each such scenario, we have included the most-anticipated and phenomenologically motivated models to demonstrate the concept of BSMEFT. In this paper, we have provided the full EFT Lagrangian for each such model up to mass dimension 6. We have also identified the CP, baryon (B), and lepton (L) number violating effective operators.

scholarly journals A CRITICAL LOOK AT PRECISION ELECTROWEAK DATA AT HIGH ENERGY—A HINT FOR PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL?

1994 ◽  
Vol 09 (35) ◽  
pp. 3301-3312
Author(s):  
A. GURTU
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Pair Production ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Recent Measurement ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Full Data ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Basic Framework ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Precision Electroweak Data

High energy electroweak data, including the recent measurement of M top is analyzed within the basic framework of the standard model. While the experimentally measured value of [Formula: see text] implies a low value of M top , the rest of the data demands a much higher value. Estimates of M Higgs within the SM framework including and excluding this Rb measurement are given. Next this discrepancy is expressed in terms of a new parameter, [Formula: see text], the excess[Formula: see text] production compared to that expected from a SM fit. This parameter is determined to be (9.4 to 12.8) ± 5.0 MeV, implying an excess of over 10 000 [Formula: see text] events in each LEP experiment after the 1993 data is fully analyzed. The origin of these events could be non-minimal Higgs pair production which should be thoroughly searched for in the full data sample of ~2×106 events per LEP experiment. Unless this discrepancy eventually turns out to be a fluctuation one may be witnessing at LEP the advent of physics beyond the standard model.

scholarly journals A global view of the off-shell Higgs portal

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Ruhdorfer ◽  
Ennio Salvioni ◽  
Andreas Weiler
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Goldstone Boson ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Higgs Portal ◽  
First Time

We study for the first time the collider reach on the derivative Higgs portal, the leading effective interaction that couples a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) scalar Dark Matter to the Standard Model. We focus on Dark Matter pair production through an off-shell Higgs boson, which is analyzed in the vector boson fusion channel. A variety of future high-energy lepton colliders as well as hadron colliders are considered, including CLIC, a muon collider, the High-Luminosity and High-Energy versions of the LHC, and FCC-hh. Implications on the parameter space of pNGB Dark Matter are discussed. In addition, we give improved and extended results for the collider reach on the marginal Higgs portal, under the assumption that the new scalars escape the detector, as motivated by a variety of beyond the Standard Model scenarios.

scholarly journals The Belle II Experiment at the SuperKEKB

2019 ◽  
Vol 218 ◽  
pp. 07003
Author(s):  
Chang-Zheng Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Precision Measurement ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Heavy Flavor ◽  
High Precision Measurement ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Status ◽  
Belle Ii ◽  
Belle Experiment

Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider is a major upgrade of the Belle experiment at the KEKB asymmetric e+e− collider at the KEK. The experiment will focus on the search for new physics beyond the standard model via high precision measurement of heavy flavor decays and search for rare signals. In this talk, we present the status of the SuperKEKB collider and the Belle II detector.

SEARCHES FOR NEW PHYSICS AT HIGH ENERGY COLLIDERS

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 5164-5173 ◽  
Author(s):  
BEATE HEINEMANN
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Extra Dimensions ◽  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Standard Model Background ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Gauge Bosons ◽  
Model Background ◽  
The Standard Model

Recent searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at high energy colliders are presented. The main focus is on searches for supersymmetry, extra dimensions and new gauge bosons. In all search analyses the data are found to agree well with the Standard Model background expectation and no evidence for contributions from physics beyond the Standard Model is found. The data are thus used to place limits on new physics scenarios.

scholarly journals PRECISION MASS DETERMINATION OF THE HIGGS BOSON AT PHOTON–PHOTON COLLIDERS

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (16) ◽  
pp. 2605-2611 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOMOMI OHGAKI
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Higgs Mass ◽  
Statistical Error ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Boson Mass ◽  
Total Width ◽  
Mass Determination ◽  
The Standard Model

We demonstrate a measurement of the Higgs boson mass by the method of energy scanning at photon–photon colliders, using the high energy edge of the photon spectrum. With an integrated luminosity of 50 fb-1 it is possible to measure the standard model Higgs mass to within 110 MeV in photon–photon collisions for mh=100 GeV. As for the total width of the Higgs boson, the statistical error ΔΓh/Γh SM=0.06 is expected for mh=100 GeV, if both Γ(h→γγ) and [Formula: see text] are fixed at the predicted standard model value.

scholarly journals Studies of Missing Energy Decays at Belle II

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 1860072
Author(s):  
Yinghui Guan
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Rare Decays ◽  
Neutral Current ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Missing Energy ◽  
Final State ◽  
Full Reconstruction ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Belle Ii ◽  
The Spectator

The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider is a major upgrade of the KEK “B factory” facility in Tsukuba, Japan. The machine is designed for an instantaneous luminosity of [Formula: see text], and the experiment is expected to accumulate a data sample of about 50 ab[Formula: see text]. With this amount of data, decays sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model can be studied with unprecedented precision. One promising set of modes are physics processes with missing energy such as [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] decays. The [Formula: see text] decay provides one of the cleanest experimental probes of the flavour-changing neutral current process [Formula: see text], which is sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. However, the missing energies of the neutrinos in the final state makes the measurement challenging and requires full reconstruction of the spectator [Formula: see text] meson in [Formula: see text] events. This report discusses the expected sensitivities of Belle II for these rare decays.

scholarly journals Natural philosophy versus philosophy of naturalness

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (18) ◽  
pp. 2030006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goran Senjanović
Keyword(s):  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Hierarchy Problem ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
Energy Physics

I reflect on some of the basic aspects of present day Beyond the Standard Model particle physics, focusing mostly on the issues of naturalness, in particular on the so-called hierarchy problem. To all of us, physics as natural science emerged with Galileo and Newton, and led to centuries of unparalleled success in explaining and often predicting new phenomena of nature. I argue here that the long-standing obsession with the hierarchy problem as a guiding principle for the future of our field has had the tragic consequence of deviating high energy physics from its origins as natural philosophy, and turning it into a philosophy of naturalness.

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