The Physics of Heavy Flavours at SuperB

TL;DR

This review discusses the SuperB project, a proposed flavor factory designed for precision measurements and rare decay searches of various particles, aiming to test the Standard Model and explore new physics including dark matter and light Higgs particles.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the SuperB accelerator, detector, and physics program, highlighting its potential to advance understanding of fundamental symmetries and new physics.

Findings

SuperB can perform high-precision measurements of B, D, tau, and Upsilon decays.

It can constrain light dark matter and light Higgs particles below 10 GeV/c^2.

Potential to test Standard Model predictions and search for new physics.

Abstract

This is a review of the SuperB project, covering the accelerator, detector, and highlights of the broad physics programme. SuperB is a flavour factory capable of performing precision measurements and searches for rare and forbidden decays of $B_{u,d,s}$, $D$, $\tau$ and $\Upsilon({\mathrm{nS}})$ particles. These results can be used to test fundamental symmetries and expectations of the Standard Model, and to constrain many different hypothesised types of new physics. In some cases these measurements can be used to place constraints on the existence of light dark matter and light Higgs particles with masses below $10GeV/c^2$. The potential impact of the measurements that will be made by SuperB on the field of high energy physics is also discussed in the context of data taken at both high energy in the region around the \Upsilon({\mathrm{4S}})$, and near charm threshold.