The Belle II experiment: fundamental physics at the flavor frontier

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Authors	Ivan Heredia de la Cruz
Date	Aug. 24, 2016
Belle II Number	BELLE2-CONF-PROC-2016-007
Abstract	After the major success of B-factories to establish the CKM mechanism and its proven potential to search for new physics, the Belle II experiment will continue exploring the physics at the flavor frontier over the next years. Belle II will collect 50 times more data than its predecessor, Belle, and allow for various precision measurements and searches of rare decays and particles. This paper introduces the B-factory concept and the flavor frontier approach to search for new physics. It then describes the SuperKEKB accelerator and the Belle II detector, as well as some of the physics that will be analyzed in Belle II, concluding with the experiment status and schedule.