13–17 May 2024
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University
US/Eastern timezone

Measurement of beam polarization at an $e^+e^-$ $B$-Factory with a new tau polarimetry technique

15 May 2024, 16:00
15m
David Lawrence Hall 104 (University of Pittsburgh)

David Lawrence Hall 104

University of Pittsburgh

Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics

Speaker

Swagato Banerjee (University of Louisville (US))

Description

Belle II is considering upgrading SuperKEKB with a polarized electron beam. The introduction of beam polarization to the experiment would significantly expand the physics program of Belle II in the electroweak, dark , and lepton flavor universality sectors. For all of these future measurements a robust method of determining the average beam polarization is required to maximize the level of precision. The $BABAR$ experiment has developed a new beam polarimetry technique, Tau Polarimetry, capable of measuring the average beam polarization to better than half a percent. Tau Polarimetry strongly motivates the addition of beam polarization to SuperKEKB and could also be used at future $e^+e^-$ colliders such as the ILC.
We present the results obtained with the $BABAR$ detector by using the full data set of about 470 $\text{fb}^{-1}$ collected at the $e^+e^-$ PEP-II collider.

Author

Swagato Banerjee (University of Louisville (US))

Presentation materials