BaBar

BABAR is a High Energy Physics experiment located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, near Stanford University, in California.

The goal of the experiment is to study the violation of charge and parity (CP) symmetry in the decays of B mesons. This violation manifests itself as different behaviour between particles and anti-particles and is the first step to explain the absence of anti-particles in everyday life.

In particular, the UMass BaBar group's involvement in the experiment includes:

  • Study of time dependent CP violation in rare, charmless B decays.
  • Measurement of the angle alpha of the Unitarity Triangle.
  • Search for purely leptonic B decays, B->l+l-.
  • Search for evidence of production of pentaquarks and other exotic hadronic states.
  • Measurement of CP violation in the rare radiative penguin decay B->X_s gamma.
  • Parameterization of probability density functions (PDFs) for Cherenkov angle measurements from the DIRC (Detector of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) detector.
  • Maintenance of the DIRC.

    • There are no faculty or student positions available in the BaBar group at this time.

    Members

    Faculty:

  • Carlo Dallapiccola

    • Postdoctoral Research Assistant:

  • Sepehr Saremi

    • Graduate Students:

  • Emmanuele Salvati

    • Recent Graduates:

  • Xuanzhong Li
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