Subject: Arrangements for David Kirkby's RPM on 1/20
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:57:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Christopher Kolda <kolda@thsrv.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: Christopher Kolda <CFKolda@lbl.gov>
To: RPM committee <BAMalfatti@lbl.gov>, JMMiller@lbl.gov, SDCheeseboro@lbl.gov
CC: Mary Kihanya <MKihanya@lbl.gov>, Christopher Kolda <CFKolda@lbl.gov>,
     Gil Shapiro <g_shapiro@lbl.gov>

As part of the campus faculty search, we are having David Kirkby give an
RPM on 1/20. His title and abtract and email address are all below. Please
make all necessary arrangements for him. He will probably want housing for
one night.

Thanks!
                                Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: David Kirkby <kirkby@HEP.Stanford.EDU>

Title: "Challenges and Opportunities at an Asymmetric B Factory"

Abstract:

The BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has
recently begun an ambitious physics program to systematically study
CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B decays. One of the challenges at a
high-luminosity asymmetric e+e- collider like PEP-II is to operate in the
presence of large accelerator backgrounds. I will describe the sources of
these backgrounds and how they influenced the design of the BaBar
interaction region and silicon vertex tracker. I will also review our
operating experience with backgrounds since the start of PEP-II
commissioning, in June 1997. Next, I will outline BaBar's plans to measure
the CP-violation parameter sin(2 beta), emphasizing the role of the
silicon tracker. Finally, I will describe how a study of B0-B0bar
oscillations will soon be used to demonstrate BaBar's capability to
measure sin(2 beta) and to provide important input for this measurement.