Feasibility Study for an Asymmetric B Factory Based on PEP
1989
A. Chattapadhyay, D. G. Hitlin, F. C. Porter, Y.H. Chin, D. Dell’Orco, Éric Forest, M.A. Furman, A. Garren, E. Hoyer, K. Kennedy, G.R. Lambertson, C. C. Lo, H. Nishimura, P. J. Oddone, M. T. Ronan, A. Sessler, B. Taylor, C. Taylor, M. Zisman, William A. Barletta, M. T. Allen, Edward A. Bloom, D. L. Burke, M. Cornacchia, D. Davies-White, H. DeStaebler, M.H.R. Donald, J. Dorfan, G. Feldman, J. Rees, H. Schsarz, M. J. Sullivan, B. Autin, Jonathan Tennyson, B. Barbson, K. Oide
Abstract
This report addresses the feasibility of designing and constructing an asymmetric B-factory based on the PEP storage ring at SLAC that can ultimately reach a luminosity of 1 X 10{sup 34} cm{sup -2}s{sup -1}. Such a facility, operating at the {gamma}(4S) resonance, could be used to study mixing, rate decays, and CP violation in the B{bar B} system, and could also study tau and charm physics. The essential accelerator physics, engineering, and technology issues that must be addressed to successfully build this exciting and challenging facility are identified, and possible solutions, or R and D that will reasonable lead to such solutions, are described.