The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric $e^+ e^-$ collider is a substantial upgrade of the B factory facility at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan. It aims to record a factor of 50 times more data than its predecessor. The experiment completed a commissioning run in 2018, and began full operation in early 2019. Belle II is uniquely capable of studying the so-called "XYZ" particles: heavy exotic hadrons consisting of more than three quarks. First discovered by Belle, these now number in the dozens, and represent the emergence of a new category within quantum chromodynamics. This talk will present the prospects of Belle II to explore both exotic and conventional quarkonium physics.
Revised: February 6, 2020 |
Published: December 17, 2019
Citation
Fulsom B.G. 2019.Exotic and Conventional Quarkonium Physics Prospects at Belle II. In 29th International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies (LeptonPhoton 2019), August 5-10, 2019, Toronto, Canada. Proceedings of Science, 367. Trieste:Sissa Medialab.PNNL-SA-145996.doi:10.22323/1.367.0119