Pushing the limits, toward a higher luminosity B Factory: SuperKEKB (Prof. John Flanagan, KEK Lab, Japan)

by Prof. John Flanagan (KEK Laboratory, Japan)

Thursday Feb 19, 2009, 3:30 PM → 5:00 PM Pacific/Honolulu

Rm 112 (UHM - Watanabe Hall)

The KEK B Factory, KEKB, is the current world record holder for luminosity, with a peak luminosity of 1.7x10³⁴ cm^-2 s^-1. Plans are being made for an upgrade, to SuperKEKB, which aims for a luminosity up to 50 times higher. Achieving this will require pushing the beam-beam parameters beyond what has ever been achieved, into regions that are still an active area of study and modeling. I will discuss factors that determine the luminosity, and the latest plans to address them at SuperKEKB. John Flanagan did his PhD here at UHM, with the first thesis on muon neutrino oscillations in SuperK, and he is now senior staff member at the KEK laboratory in Japan