There is continued worldwide interest in B meson and CP
violation physics. The recently completed Long Term Planning process
for BABAR has heightened interest in understanding the
contributions that asymmetric
e+e-colliders, with luminosity of
1036 cm-2s-1, can make to this
physics in the era of high luminosity hadron machines.
The 1036 Study Group has been established
by BABAR to develop the physics case for such
an e+e- collider. The Study Group
should take advantage of tools created in the long term planning
process to conduct its investigations over the next year, considering
statistical error as well as the systematic effects and theoretical
uncertainties. It is expected that the Study Group will convene
meetings during this year, with a final closeout workshop in early
October 2003. The final report of the Study Group, which will be the
product of this workshop, should be delivered to BABAR
management before the December 2003 Collaboration Meeting, with
presentations of the conclusions of the Study Group to be made at the
Collaboration Meeting.
Though the focus of the Study Group must be on the physics case for
a high luminosity B factory, it is expected that the study group will
need to develop a straw-man detector to verify the competitive
potential of this machine. It is suggested that the Study Group can
quickly converge in this effort by considering parameters of a
suitably upgraded BABAR detector. In conjunction with
machine physicists, the Study Group should understand this
detector’s response to realistic backgrounds expected from
a 10 36 machine where there is continuous beam
injection.
It is expected that cast of players needed to complete these
investigations will include theorists and machine physicists as well
as experimenters. A six-member steering subcommittee, co-chaired by
Francesco Forti and David Hitlin, is charged with organizing and
steering the effort of the Study Group, and with producing the final
report of the Study Group on the schedule discussed above.