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Belle II


The Belle II experiment is a particle physics experiment designed to study the properties of B mesons (heavy particles containing a bottom quark). Belle II is the successor to the Belle experiment, and is currently being commissioned at the SuperKEKBaccelerator complex at KEK in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The Belle II detector was "rolled in" (moved into the collision point of SuperKEKB) in April 2017. Belle II is expected to begin taking data in early 2018. Over its running period, Belle II is expected to collect around 50 times more data than its predecessor due mostly to a factor 40 increase in instantaneous luminosity provided by SuperKEKB over the original KEKB accelerator.

Much of the original Belle detector has been upgraded to cope with the higher instantaneous luminosity provided by the SuperKEKB accelerator. Close to the beam pipe, the two innermost layers of Belle's silicon vertex detector have been replaced by a depleted field effect transistor (DEPFET) pixel detector, and a larger the silicon vertex detector. A larger central tracking system – a wire drift chamber, has been installed. Two new particle identification systems have been installed in the forward endcap (consisting of an aerogel ring-imaging Cherenkov detector) and in the barrel (consisting of quartz bars utilising totally internally reflected Cherenkov photons and measuring the time of propagation). The original CsI(Tl) electromagnetic calorimeter has been re-used (a new pure CsI calorimeter is being designed for the forward endcap to be installed at a later stage). The calorimeter readout electronics have been upgraded. Finally, scintillators have been installed in the forward endcap and inner layers of Belle's
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