1. Report from BPAC meeting
• Purpose of BPAC:
Give assessment to the Belle physics outcome and its
future program including the upgrade project. Their
recommendation will be presented to MEXT and
governmental review committees.
• Membership:
A.Buras (TU Muenchen), Y.Grossman (Cornell), S.Kim
(Tsukuba), Y.Kuno (Osaka), T.Nakada (EPFL, Chair),
T.Skwarnicki (Syracuse), W.Trishuk(Tronto), and
A.Golutvin (ICL)
Last meeting on March 2 and 3, 2009
Draft report from BPAC
• 1.Introduction
• 2. Belle experiment
– 2-1 Physics achievement in 2008
– 2-2 Plan for 2009
• 3. Upgrade
– 3-1 Physics program
– 3-2 Accelerator upgrade
– 3-3 Detector upgrade
• 4. Summary and recommendations
BPAC’s comments on the present Belle and KEKB
On the SuperKEKB program
2. Funding status
• We got 5 oku-yen (~$5M) to start upgrade
in JFY2009 (i.e. a year from April 09).
• You will hear more from KEK-DG at 5pm
today.
3. What will happen to me
• Allow me to step down as one of the
interim spokespersons of the collaboration.
• HOWEVER, THIS DOES NOT IMPLY
THAT I LOST INTEREST IN THE
SUPERKEKB.
• May I stay in the steering committee?