Bottom Quark Studies

这一奖项将为罗切斯特大学的一个小组提供支持，以继续进行高能物理研究。该小组将参与使用康奈尔电子储存环(CESR)的CLEO II探测器的合作。这项合作计划在高能物理方面进行广泛的研究，包括重夸克的衰变。罗切斯特小组将集中研究重b夸克的衰变。特别是，他们将确定衰变到u夸克而不是c夸克的b夸克的比例，寻找b夸克的禁忌衰变，并研究upsilon(4S)介子到非BB态的衰变。这些研究是证实所谓的电子弱相互作用的“标准模型”的基础。

This award will provide support to a group from Rochester University, to continue research in high energy physics. The group will participate in a collaboration using the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR). The collaboration plans a wide range of studies in high energy physics including the decay of heavy quarks. The Rochester group will concentrate their studies on the decay of the heavy b quark. In particular they will determine the fraction of b quarks that decay to u quarks rather than to c quarks, search for forbidden decays of b quarks and investigate the decays of the upsilon (4S) meson into non bb states. These studies are fundamental to the corroboration of the so called "standard model" of the electronweak interactions.