Heavy Meson Physics: What have we learned in Twenty Years?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-18 v2
Abstract
I give a personal account of the development of the field of heavy quarks. After reviewing the experimental discovery of charm and bottom quarks, I describe how the field's focus shifted towards determination of CKM elements and how this has matured into a precision science.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0412416,
title = {Heavy Meson Physics: What have we learned in Twenty Years?},
author = {Benjamin Grinstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0412416},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
This talk was presented during the ceremony awarding the Medalla 2003 of the Division of Particles and Fields of The Mexican Phsyical Society, at the IX Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields; submitted for proceedings; 9 pages, 9 figures; replacement: fix multiple typos