About Us
Group C is one of the Departments in the Research
Division at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Members of Group
C play prominent roles in BABAR, the large experiment operating at the
PEP II Storage Ring Complex on site. The principal goals of this experiment
are:
- to search for violation of CP invariance in neutral
B Mesons (achieved in 2000)
- to further explore CP violating effects and gain
a more in-depth understanding of this important and still puzzling
phenomenon
- to probe decays of B mesons and other heavy flavor
particles for signs of phenomena that are inconsistent with our current
understanding of particle physics
- to perform a comprehensive survey of many millions
of particle interactions
These studies are fundamental to our understanding
of the Standard Model of Weak Interactions. CP Violation is believed
to be a key to our understanding of the observation that the world we
live in is predominantly made of matter, with almost no anti-matter.
Contact Information:
Physics Research: Vera
Luth or Aaron Roodman
Administrative:
Barbara
Valdez