Related papers: First Year of the BABAR Experiment Data Taking
The BABAR experiment at the PEP-II asymmetric B factory at SLAC has collected a large sample of data at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance. I will summarize BABAR's new results on CP violation, B mixing and lifetimes, and a selection of rare B…
We present the first observation in hadronic collisions of the electroweak production of vector boson pairs (VV; V = W,Z) where one boson decays to a hadronic final state. The data correspond to 3.5/fb of integrated luminosity collected by…
After nine years of operation the BABAR experiment at the B factory PEPII (Standford Linear Accelerator Center) stopped data taking in April 2008. The last three month of data taking were devoted to e+e- collisions at center of mass…
We report recent results in the study of rare hadronic and radiative penguin decays of B mesons. These results are based on a sample of 23 million B B-bar pairs collected by the BaBar Collaboration at the SLAC PEP-II e+e- B Factory.
This article summarises measurements of time-dependent CP asymmetries in decays of neutral B mesons to charm final states using data collected by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B-factory. All results are preliminary…
We report recent measurements of rare charmless B decays performed by BaBar. The results are based on the final BaBar dataset of 424 fb^{-1} collected at the PEP-II $B$-factory based at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
I review the recent efforts to improve the precision of the prediction of the anomalous moment of the muon, in particular of the hadronic contribution of the vacuum polarization, which is the contribution with the largest uncertainty. Focus…
We have made the first measurement of the double-inclusive B/Bbar energy distribution in e+e- annihilations, using a sample of 400,000 hadronic Z0 decay events recorded in the SLD experiment at SLAC between 1996 and 1998. The small and…
Based on background measurements at PEP II the impact of machine-related backgrounds on individual components of multipurpose detectors is examined, that operate in an asymmetric B factory at luminosities up to 10^{36} cm^{-2} s^{-1}.…
The $B^0\bar{B^0}$ oscillation frequency $\Delta m_d$ has been measured with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric $B$ factory with different experimental techniques. The discussion here is focused on the recent simultaneous…
The BABAR detector, at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC collected a sample of 32 million BBbar pairs whilst operating at energies near the Upsilon(4S) resonance between October 1999 and May 2001. An study of time-dependent…
Both experiments CDF and D0 at the Tevatron collider have now the first samples of B_s particles where preliminary measurements are performed. The mass and lifetime measurements are presented and the yield for the hadronic B_s decays, the…
Large production of the $\ccbar$ pairs and high integrated luminosity make the PEPII B-Factory, an excellent place for studying the charm hadrons. In this paper, we present a few of the most recent results from the BaBar collaboration in…
We present recent results of hadronic B meson decays related to the CKM angle beta. The data used were collected by the BABAR detector at the pepII asymmetric-energy e+e- collider operating at the Upsilon(4S) resonance located at the…
Recently it has been demonstrated that particle factories, such as DAPHNE and PEP-II, operating at fixed center-of-mass energies, are able to measure hadronic cross sections as a function of the hadronic system energy using the raditive…
We present recent results on charmonium and charmonium-like states from the BaBar B-factory located at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
We report measurements of the first and second moments of the hadronic invariant mass squared distribution, <M^2_X> and <(M^2_X-<M^2_X>)^2>, in B -> X_c l nu decays for minimum lepton momenta ranging from 0.7 to 1.5 GeV/c in the B meson…
Recent measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating partial-rate asymmetries for rare hadronic B-meson decays by the asymmetric-energy B-factory experiments, Belle and BaBar, are reviewed.
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the prospects for B physics at the Tevatron. The work was carried out during a series of workshops starting in September 1999. There were four working groups: 1) CP Violation, 2) Rare and…
The Fermilab Tevatron (p pbar), operating at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, is a rich source of B hadrons. The large acceptance in terms of rapidity and transverse momentum of the charged particle tracking system and the muon system make the upgraded…