KEKB was a Japanese particle accelerator located at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, used to power the Belle experiment studying CP violation in b quark hadrons. It was superseded by its luminosity upgraded successor, SuperKEKB, which now supplies particle beams to the follow on Belle II experiment.
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SignificanceKEKB was a B-factory prized for its copious production of B-mesons, providing a golden channel to study and measure CP violation, before it was superseded by the SuperKEKB upgrade at the same KEK site. 2 Classification
StatusRetired or Decommissioned 1 Connections
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Source KEKB (accelerator) (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
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1. Belle experiment (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundationshort description and lead sentence
The experiment ran from 1999 to 2010.
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It was superseded by its luminosity upgraded successor, SuperKEKB, which now supplies particle beams to the follow on Belle II experiment.
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Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundationlead section, para 2
KEKB was called a B-factory for its copious production of B-mesons which provide a golden mode to study and measure the CP violation due to its property of decaying into other lighter mesons.
Predecessor Of: SuperKEKB, lead section, para 1
It has been superseded by its upgrade, the SuperKEKB accelerator (located at the same site). The SuperKEKB is a luminosity upgrade of KEKB.
In Group: Particle Colliders, Introduction
KEKB was a particle accelerator used in the Belle experiment to study CP violation.
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