The BaBar experiment is based in California at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and was designed and built by more than 500 physicists from 10 countries, including from 9 UK Universities and RAL.
The BaBar experiment is based in California at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and was designed and built by more than 500 physicists from 10 countries, including from 9 UK Universities and RAL.
It is looking for the subtle differences between the decay of the B0 meson and its antiparticle (B0).
- If this “CP Violation” is large enough, it could explain the cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry.
We are are looking for a subtle effect in a rare (and difficult to identify) decay, so need to record the results of a large numbers of events.