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The Physics of Heavy Flavours at SuperB

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-05-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

This is a review of the SuperB project, covering the accelerator, detector, and highlights of the broad physics programme. SuperB is a flavour factory capable of performing precision measurements and searches for rare and forbidden decays of Bu,d,sB_{u,d,s}, DD, τ\tau and Υ(nS)\Upsilon({\mathrm{nS}}) particles. These results can be used to test fundamental symmetries and expectations of the Standard Model, and to constrain many different hypothesised types of new physics. In some cases these measurements can be used to place constraints on the existence of light dark matter and light Higgs particles with masses below 10GeV/c210GeV/c^2. The potential impact of the measurements that will be made by SuperB on the field of high energy physics is also discussed in the context of data taken at both high energy in the region around the \Upsilon({\mathrm{4S}})$, and near charm threshold.

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@article{arxiv.1110.3901,
  title  = {The Physics of Heavy Flavours at SuperB},
  author = {Adrian J. Bevan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3901},
  year   = {2015}
}

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49 pages, topical review submitted to J. Phys G