| Seminar Date: | Tuesday, August 28, 2012 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | KAVLI 3rd Floor Conference Room |
| Abstract: | While experiments at the Large Hadron Collider continue to perform direct searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, continuing measurements in flavor physics, for example at the Belle and BaBar experiments, provide a complementary avenue to search for new phenomena. I will describe one such measurement, a first observation of the inclusive decay B -> X_s eta with the Belle data set. This and other unresolved "flavor puzzles" motivate a new generation of experiments and accelerators, known as super B factories. The KEKB collider in Tsukuba, Japan is now being upgraded to the SuperKEKB collider, allowing the upgraded Belle detector, known as Belle II, to collect 50 times more data than its predecessor. I will briefly describe the Belle II project, and focus on development of the primary charged particle identification system, the imaging Time-Of-Propagation (iTOP) detector. This detector utilizes custom gigasample-per-second waveform digitizing electronics developed at the University of Hawaii. |
| Speaker: | Kurtis Nishimura - University of Hawaii
 Dr. Nishimura earned a master's degree in physics from San Francisco State, on low-Z materials for radiotherapy imaging. He transitioned to particle physics at the University of Hawaii, where he earned his PhD in 2010 on analysis of data from the Belle experiment. During the latter half of his doctoral study, he became involved with the UH Instrumentation Development Laboratory, where he now works as a postdoc performing R&D on electronics systems that support of a variety of experiments, including Belle II.
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| Presentation: | Presentation on 8/28/2012 |