Narrow Results

We review the impact of CDF's Silicon Vertex Trigger (SVT) on the physics program of the CDF experiment, after three years of experience operating the device at the Tevatron. By providing impact parameter information to the trigger system, the SVT allows CDF to collect a large number of all-hadronic decays of charm and bottom hadrons previously unseen at the collider, including hadronic decays, two-body charmless B decays, and decays of heavy baryons. Semileptonic decays are now collected with greater efficiency than in previous running. Most of the work reviewed in this note is performed with less than about 200 pb^-1 of data, in some cases considerably less. Already the SVT has radically changed the nature of B physics at the collider. Empirical data on event rates and background levels now constrain future projections of CDF's sensitivity to important topics in B physics, such as particle–antiparticle oscillations, and the measurement of CP asymmetries in two-body charmless B decays.

We present a review of heavy flavor physics results from the CDF and DØ Collaborations operating at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. A summary of results from Run 1 is included, but we concentrate on legacy results of charm and b physics from Run 2, including results up to Summer 2014.