Particle and Astroparticle Physics Seminar

Commissioning the Belle II Experiment

Alexandre Beaulieu

University of Victoria

The Belle II experiment is a future high-energy physics collider experiment located at the SuperKEKB accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan. While contributing to our understanding CP violation is a key aspect of the Belle II physics programme, its general-purpose detector combined with a clean electron-positron initial state and high instantaneous luminosity also makes it a valuable tool to search for physics outside the standard model. Beyond the general aspects, this presentation will focus on key activities related to commissioning this experiment and understanding the accelerator-induced background radiation. Such background is notoriously difficult to simulate and has a dramatic impact on the instruments? performance and life time. It is therefore a very active study topic within the collaboration.