000001616 001__ 1616 000001616 005__ 20190813133644.0 000001616 037__ $$aBELLE2-TALK-CONF-2019-095 000001616 041__ $$aeng 000001616 088__ $$aBELLE2-TALK-DRAFT-2019-093 000001616 100__ $$aOskar Hartbrich 000001616 245__ $$aStart of the Belle II Experiment at SuperKEKB 000001616 260__ $$aEPS-HEP2019$$c2019-07-11 000001616 300__ $$amult. p 000001616 500__ $$a15 + 5 min 000001616 520__ $$aThe Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric e+e− collider is a substantial upgrade of the B factory facility at the Japanese KEK laboratory. The design luminosity of the machine is 8×1035 cm−2s−1 and the Belle II experiment aims to record 50 ab−1 of data, a factor of 50 more than its predecessor. With this data set, Belle II will be able to measure the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, the matrix elements and their phases, with unprecedented precision and explore flavor physics with B and charmed mesons, and τ leptons. Regular operations with the full detector have successfully started on March 25, 2019. In this presentation, we will review the status of the Belle II detector, and discuss the first results; these, while confirming known B Physics, prove the detector ability and the software readiness to reach the experiment’s goals. 000001616 8560_ $$fdoris.yangsoo.kim@desy.de 000001616 8564_ $$uhttps://docs.belle2.org/record/1616/files/BELLE2-TALK-CONF-2019-095.pdf