Preface

The 3rd SuperB Workshop was held on June 14 – 16, 2006 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Menlo Park, CA.

This workshop was aimed at continuing discussions of the design for a very high luminosity e⁺e^- collider using many of the same technical approaches as for the International Linear Collider. On this basis, the previous two meetings at Frascati have explored several new and promising ideas for reaching luminosities as high as 10³⁶ cm^-2s^-1 or more. We expect to continue the development of a coherent concept for the machine at the June meeting, ultimately aiming at a full written description of the concept by the end of 2006. The workshop also studied the capability of SuperB for a full range of flavor physics, and the corresponding requirements and demands on the associated detector.

The format for the three day conference was a combination of plenary talks and parallel sessions for physics, detector and accelerator discussions.

• Further progress in building the physics case for a very high luminosity flavor factory in the era of the LHC
• Design issues for the collider, including optimized parameters, low-emittance damping ring designs, beam-beam interactions at large crossing angles, adopting linear collider interaction region designs
• Design issues for the detector, including backgrounds and occupancies, design challenges in data acquisition and trigger, requirements for detector systems

David Hitlin
David MacFarlane
John Seeman