TTP00-28 $b$ Quark Physics with $2 \times 10^9$ $Z$ Bosons

TTP00-28 $b$ Quark Physics with $2 \times 10^9$ $Z$ Bosons

TTP00-28 $b$ Quark Physics with $2 \times 10^9$ $Z$ Bosons

It has been suggested to realize a factory for 10^9 Z^0 through a linear e^+e^- collider with polarized beams. Very likely the relevant CP studies for B mesons will already have been performed at the B factories by that time, hence GIGA-Z will be a third generation b physics experiment. Yet such a facility would provide us with unique opportunities in the domain of beauty physics that would be of essential significance even in 2010: (1) Production and decay of polarized beauty baryons; (2) searching for and probing transitions driven by b –> q \nu \bar{\nu}; (3) detailed and comprehensive studies of inclusive semileptonic B_s decays.

A. Ali, D. Benson, I. Bigi, R. Hawkings, T. Mannel
2nd ECFA/DESY Study (1998-2001) 1583-1593
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