Speaker
Jim Libby
(Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
Description
The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric $e^+ e^-$ collider is a substantial
upgrade of the B factory facility at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan. It aims to record a factor of 50 times
more data than its predecessor. The experiment completed a commissioning run in 2018, and
began full operation in early 2019. Belle II is uniquely capable of studying the so-called "XYZ"
particles: heavy exotic hadrons consisting of more than three quarks. First discovered by Belle,
these now number in the dozens, and represent the emergence of a new category within quantum
chromodynamics. This talk will present the prospects of Belle II to explore both exotic and
conventional quarkonium physics.
Primary author
Jim Libby
(Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
