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Precision studies of flavour-changing processes involving quarks and leptons provide a number of ways to improve knowledge of the Standard Model and search for physics beyond it. There are excellent short- and mid-term prospects for…
For the Belle II experiment at KEK (Tsukuba, Japan) the KEKB accelerator was upgraded to deliver a 40 times larger instantaneous luminosity than before, which requires an increased radiation hardness of the detector components. As the…
High precision flavor physics measurements are an essential complement to the direct searches for new physics at the LHC. Such measurements will be performed using the upgraded Belle II detector and upgraded KEKB accelerator. The status of…
We describe the present status of the computing system in the Belle experiment at the KEKB $e^+e^-$ asymmetric-energy collider. So far, we have logged more than 160 fb$^{-1}$ of data, corresponding to the world's largest data sample of 170M…
The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB accelerator is a next-generation B-factory aiming to collect 50 ab$^{-1}$, about 50 times the data collected at Belle, to study rare processes and make precision measurements that may expose physics…
Belle II has a broad $\tau$ physics program, in particular in searches for lepton flavour and lepton number violations. Belle II profits from the relatively large $\tau$-pair production rate in the low background environment of $e^+e^-$…
A new type of ring-imaging Cherenkov counter, called TOP counter, has been developed for particle identification at the Belle II experiment to run at the SuperKEKB accelerator in KEK, Japan. The detector consists of 16 identical modules…
The Belle experiment at the KEKB electron-positron collider is expected to have collected close to one billion $\Upsilon$(4S) events by the time it comes to an end in 2009. An upgrade to KEKB has been proposed. It is designed for an order…
The Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB accelerator observed the first collisions in April this year. Until mid-summer, the first commissioning run uses a reduced version of the full vertex detector. Nevertheless, this phase is an excellent…
The Belle experiment has given a substantial contribution in the field of heavy quarkonia. Several new states were announced by Belle for the first time, in both charmonium and bottomonium spectrum, or the confirmation from Belle…
We present the result of a search for the charged-lepton-flavor violating decay $\tau^- \to \mu^-\mu^+\mu^-$ using a $424fb^{-1}$ sample of data recorded by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB $e^{-}e^{+}$ collider. The selection of…
The Belle experiment, running at the KEKB e+e- asymmetric energy collider during the first decade of the century, achieved its original objective of measuring precisely differences between particles and anti-particles in the B system. After…
The Belle II experiment currently under construction at the $e^+e^-$-collider SuperKEKB in Japan is designed to explore new physics beyond the standard model with an approximately 50 times larger data sample compared to its predecessor. The…
Since May 1999 the BABAR detector has been taking data at the PEP-II asymmetric electron-positron collider at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, California. This experiment requires a very large data sample and the PEP-II accelerator…
Status of the KEKB accelerator and the detector, BELLE, is reported. The construction of the 3.5 Gev x 8 GeV electron-positron collider, and the solenoid detector, BELLE, was completed in December, 1998. The commissioning of them has been…
The future Belle II experiment will employ a computer-farm based data reduction system for the readout of its innermost detector, a DEPFET-technology based silicon detector with pixel readout. A large fraction of the background hits can be…
We report on $CP$ violation measurements at Belle and Belle II, focusing on improving the precision of observables sensitive to the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix parameters. We present recent measurements of the CKM unitarity angle…
The Belle collaboration operates a general-purpose detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy e+ e- collider, performing a wide range of measurements in beauty, charm, tau and 2-photon physics. In this paper, the treatment of statistical…
The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) is a high resolution crystal calorimeter operating at the CERN LHC. It is responsible for the identification and precise reconstruction of electrons and photons in CMS, which were crucial in the…
SuperKEKB, a 7 GeV electron - 4 GeV positron double-ring collider, is constructed by upgrading KEKB in order to seek new physics beyond the Standard Model. The design luminosity of SuperKEKB is 8 x 10^35 /cm^2 /s - 40 times higher than that…