Super B factory

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The proposal requests funds for the pre-research stage of a "Super B factory". This is an international particle physics facility that would provide data of a fundamental scientific nature from the annihilation of  electrons and positrons (i.e. anti-electrons) at a centre-of-mass energy of 10.58GeV (an energy equivalent to the mass of approximately 10 protons). The new technologies to be developed will have these collisions occur at 100 times the rates currently available and provide for the detection and measurement of the collision events. With such a data sample, we will study b- and c-quarks and tau leptons with extremely high precision and search for evidence of new physics through studies of matter and antimatter asymmetries and decays of particles that are predicted in theories of physics beyond the Standard Model. The project is in the early planning stages and the proposal will support the planning of this cutting edge research and would enable Canada to play important roles in the project as it develops.