General Information
About BTeV
The BTeV Physics Program
BTeV Related Documents
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BTeV will challenge the Standard Model explanation of CP violation, mixing, and
rare decays in the beauty and charm quark systems. Exploiting the large numbers of
beauty and charm particles produced at the Tevatron, BTeV will make precise
measurements of Standard Model parameters and an exhaustive search for physics
beyond the Standard Model.
BTeV can perform the compelling physics studies that need to be done and is not
limited by current constraints on what studies can be done due to its efficient
trigger and capable
data acquisition system.
It is not constrained by a central geometry, nor limited by relatively low
numbers of beauty hadrons as in e+e- colliders. BTeV excels in several
crucial areas including: triggering on decays with purely hadronic final states
(vertex trigger),
charged particle identification (RICH,
electromagnetic calorimeter,
& muon system),
single photon and pi0 reconstruction
(electromagnetic calorimeter),
excellent proper time resolution
(pixel detector), and
good mass resolution
(forward silicon &
straws).
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