The Belle Silicon Vertex Detector

TL;DR

The paper describes the design, initial performance, and upgrade plans for the Belle experiment's silicon vertex detector, which is crucial for analyzing B meson decays at KEKB.

Contribution

It presents the construction, initial performance results, and future upgrade plans of the silicon vertex detector for the Belle experiment.

Findings

Successful initial data collection demonstrating detector performance

Identification of areas for future upgrade improvements

Enhanced vertex resolution for B meson decay analysis

Abstract

The silicon vertex detector of the Belle experiment has been built to provide the vertex information of $B$ meson decays at the KEKB accelerator. Performance during the initial data taking period and a brief description of the upgrade plan are also presented.