Bottom Quark Physics - Past, Present, Future
| dc.creator | Thorndike, Edward H. | |
| dc.date | 2000-03-23 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:33:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:33:54Z | |
| dc.description | On the occasion of a symposium honoring my collegue Adrian Melissinos, I gave an informal, personal review of bottom quark physics. This paper is a writeup of that talk. I first summarize the early days, the decade from the discovery through the determination of the b quark's rough features. I note a change in objective which occurred around 1990, with the new emphasis being USING the b quark, to probe the Standard Model and to search for physics `beyond the Standard Model'. I review the flavor sector of the Standard Model, showing why the b quark is such a useful probe. I then discuss three topics of current interest: the determination of V_ub; studies of rare hadronic B decays; and the radiative penguin decay b -> s gamma. | |
| dc.description | Talk given at Symposium on Probing Luminous and Dark Matter, honoring Adrian Melissinos, Rochester, October, 1999. Submitted to conference proceedings, World Scientific, 2000 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0003027 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0003027 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/36760 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Experiment | |
| dc.title | Bottom Quark Physics - Past, Present, Future | |
| dc.type | text |