IoP Half-Day Meeting on

Physics at B Factories

Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester

19 November 2003

13.00 – 16.30

This half-day meeting will cover a range of topics at a level

suitable for the entire particle physics community. Speakers

have been asked to address a wide audience. The spokesman

and spokesman-elect of BaBar, Marcello Giorgi and David

Macfarlane, will be at the meeting to take part in discussions.

Provisional programme (scheduled times include 5 minutes for questions and discussion):

13.00 Introduction to B factories – machines, experiments and physics: Chris Cormack (QMUL)

13.30 Charm physics at B factories – two new narrow D_s states: Chris Hawkes (Birmingham)

13.55 Tau and hadron physics at B factories: Jenny Williams (Manchester)

14.25 CP-violation studies: Adrian Bevan (Liverpool)

15.10 TEA

15.30 Radiative and rare B decays: Fabrizio Salvatore (RHUL)

16.05 Physics at Super B Factories: Christos Touramanis (Liverpool)

16.30 END … Cheese and wine … all welcome

Travel directions to the Schuster Laboratory can be found here.

Please inform George.Lafferty@man.ac.uk (telephone 0161 275 4199) if you plan to attend. If you will be coming by car, please request a parking permit.

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Last updated on 21 October 2003 by George Lafferty