Belle Experiment

In the field of particle physics Belle Experiment is an international collaboration of more than 400 physicists and engineers investigating CP-violation effects using the Belle particle detector at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation (KEK) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Belle is also the name of the detector located at the collision point of the experiment.

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Particle physics - CP-violation - Accelerator - KEK - Tsukuba - Ibaraki Prefecture - Japan

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The Belle detector is a multi-layer particle detector. Its large solid angle coverage, vertex location with precision on the order of tens of micrometres (provided by a silicon vertex detector), good pion-kaon separation at multi-GeV momenta (provided by a novel Cherenkov detector), and few-percent precision electromagnetic calorimetry (CsI(Tl) scintillating crystals) allow a list of other scientific searches apart from CP violation in the B system. Studies of rare decays and searches for exotic particles and precision measurements of bottom and charm mesons and tau leptons are possible.

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Cherenkov - Tau leptons

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