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Physical Society ColloquiumInterview for Faculty PositionMatter-Antimatter Oscillations at DZeroWendy TaylorStony Brook UniversityThe Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider is the highest energy collider in the world. At this time, the Tevatron is the only accelerator that creates collisions with high enough energy to produce Bs mesons, particles containing both a bottom (b) and strange (s) quark. Bs mesons are expected to exhibit a phenomenon known as mixing, whereby the Bs particle oscillates into its own antiparticle. The observation of this phenomenon would not only be interesting in its own right; it would also improve our understanding of the interaction between quarks and the weak force and possibly shed light on the question of why the universe is predominantly composed of matter as opposed to antimatter. In this talk, I will describe the DZero experiment, as will as the phenomenon of Bs mixing. Then I will discuss how Bs mixing could be observed at DZero in the coming years of the Tevatron run.
Monday, January 26th 2004, 16:00
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103) |