{"id":7,"date":"2019-04-06T10:28:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T10:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:22:03","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Researches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Belle&nbsp; \/ Belle II Experiment<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Belle experiment<\/strong>&nbsp;was a&nbsp;particle physics&nbsp;experiment conducted by the&nbsp;<strong>Belle Collaboration<\/strong>, an international collaboration of more than 400 physicists and engineers, at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation (KEK) in&nbsp;Tsukuba,&nbsp;Ibaraki Prefecture,&nbsp;Japan. The experiment ran from 1999 to 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/PWtri2_04-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:750px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Simple Schema of ee to BB pair annihilation-production<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belle detector was located at the collision point of the asymmetric-energy\u00a0electron\u2013positron\u00a0collider,\u00a0KEKB. Belle at KEKB together with the\u00a0BaBar experiment\u00a0at the\u00a0PEP-II\u00a0accelerator at\u00a0SLAC\u00a0were known as the\u00a0B-factories\u00a0as they collided electrons with positrons at the center-of-momentum energy equal to the mass of the\u00a0\u03d2(4S)\u00a0resonance\u00a0which decays to pairs of\u00a0B mesons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/belle4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/belle4.jpg 765w, https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/belle4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/belle4-720x479.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Belle Detector<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belle detector was a\u00a0hermetic\u00a0multilayer\u00a0particle detector\u00a0with large\u00a0solid angle\u00a0coverage, vertex location with precision on the order of tens of micrometres (provided by a silicon vertex detector), good distinction between\u00a0pions\u00a0and\u00a0kaons\u00a0in the momenta range from 100\u00a0MeV\/c\u00a0to few GeV\/c (provided by a\u00a0Cherenkov\u00a0detector), and a few-percent precision electromagnetic\u00a0calorimeter\u00a0(made of\u00a0CsI(Tl)\u00a0scintillating crystals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Belle II experiment&nbsp;is an upgrade of Belle that was approved in June 2010.&nbsp;It is currently being commissioned,&nbsp;and is anticipated to start operation in 2018.&nbsp;Belle II is located at&nbsp;SuperKEKB&nbsp;(an upgraded&nbsp;KEKB accelerator) which is intended to provide a factor 40 larger integrated luminosity.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DndqHm3U0AIQfhz.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DndqHm3U0AIQfhz.jpg 730w, https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DndqHm3U0AIQfhz-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DndqHm3U0AIQfhz-720x444.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">SuperKEKB  and Belle II detector<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Much of the original Belle detector has been upgraded\u00a0to cope with the higher instantaneous luminosity provided by the SuperKEKB accelerator.\u00a0Close to the beam pipe, the two innermost layers of Belle&#8217;s silicon vertex detector have been replaced by a depleted\u00a0field effect transistor\u00a0(DEPFET) pixel detector, and a larger the silicon vertex detector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A larger central tracking system \u2013 a\u00a0wire drift chamber, has been installed.\u00a0Two new particle identification systems have been installed in the forward endcap (consisting of an\u00a0aerogel\u00a0ring-imaging Cherenkov detector) and in the barrel (consisting of quartz bars utilising\u00a0totally internally reflected\u00a0Cherenkov\u00a0photons and measuring the time of propagation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The original\u00a0CsI(Tl) electromagnetic\u00a0calorimeter\u00a0has been re-used (a new pure CsI calorimeter is being designed for the forward endcap\u00a0to 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&#8217;s\u00a0K<sup>0<\/sup><sub>L<\/sub>\u00a0and muon detector, the original resistive plate chambers (RPCs) from Belle are reused in the outer layers of the barrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The target dataset is 50ab<sup>\u22121<\/sup>&nbsp;at Belle II&nbsp;compared to 988fb<sup>\u22121<\/sup>&nbsp;(with 711fb<sup>\u22121<\/sup>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;\u03a5(4S) energy) at Belle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dark Matter Search<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DarkMatterPie.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DarkMatterPie.jpg 509w, https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DarkMatterPie-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2214349\/files\/SMRK.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Standard Model has been accomplished with detecting the evidence of Higg Boson at CERN, 2012, the major interests of particle physicists are shifted to Beyond-Standard Model (BSM). The most attractive, and important topic is &#8220;Dark Matter&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>With several unignoreable evidences, Astrophysicists say that our visible universe are only 4 percent of total universe&#8217;s Mass-Energy. There might be &#8216;Something&#8221; consist our universe, without interacting electromagnetic force. (So it&#8217;s Dark)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Yonsei High Energy Physics Lab, we are looking for evidence of dark matter with Belle \/ Belle II experiment data. Extracting B decays contain dark mode, and calculate the upper limit of branching fraction would give nice glance of proving SM-DM interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belle&nbsp; \/ Belle II Experiment The&nbsp;Belle experiment&nbsp;was a&nbsp;particle physics&nbsp;experiment conducted by the&nbsp;Belle Collaboration, an international collaboration of more than 400 physicists and engineers, at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation (KEK) in&nbsp;Tsukuba,&nbsp;Ibaraki Prefecture,&nbsp;Japan. The experiment ran from 1999 to 2010. The Belle detector was located at the collision point of the asymmetric-energy\u00a0electron\u2013positron\u00a0collider,\u00a0KEKB. Belle at KEKB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"gt_page_layout":"","gt_hide_page_title":false,"gt_remove_bottom_margin":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhep.yonsei.ac.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}