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30 Years of BES Physics cover

 

BES, the Beijing Spectrometer, began its first groundbreaking physics run, thirty years ago, in 1989. This is the first high energy physics experiment in China, and has been unique throughout the world for its thorough and extended coverage of the tau and charm energy region. Since then, the BES detector has undergone steady improvements, upgrading to BESII in 1998 and to BESIII in 2008. Over the same period, the collaboration has expanded from 150 members, across 10 institutions in China and the United States, to about 500 members, across 72 institutions and 15 countries. The physics program, too, has extended from light hadron spectroscopy, tau, and charm physics to the discovery of exotic charmonium-like states, precision tests of the Standard Model of particle physics, and searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

This special volume collects the proceedings of the symposium held at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, in celebration of the 30-year span of achievements and progress at the BES, BESII, and BESIII experiments. Written by many leaders of the BES collaborations, these proceedings document the early days of the BES experiments, important milestones, and the future physics program at BESIII.

 

Sample Chapter(s)
Preface
1. Beginnings of BES Experiment

 

Contents:

  • Beginnings of BES Experiment (Zhipeng Zheng)
  • From BESI to BESII (F A Harris)
  • The BES Publications Policy (J M Izen)
  • The First Tau Mass Measurement by the BES Collaboration (Walter Toki)
  • Direct Measurements of the Weak Decay Constant ƒDs(ƒD) and the Ds(D) Branching Fractions to μνμ, ϕπ, eX, ϕX (μνμ) at C.M. Energy of 4.03 GeV (C C Zhang)
  • The Initial ψ′ Physics Program at the BES Experiment (Chang-Zheng Yuan)
  • Initial ψ(3770) and its Related Physics at the BES Experiment (G Rong)
  • The First Permanent International Computer Network Connection Between China and the USA(R L A Cottrell and R S Xu)
  • BESII Vertex Chamber and MDC II Feedthroughs (R L Malchow)
  • BEPCII/BESIII (Hesheng Chen)
  • From BESII to BESIII (Weiguo Li)
  • The European Contribution to BES(III) (W Gradl)
  • JINR and Russian Groups in BESIII (A Zhemchugov)
  • The Initial XYZ Program at BESIII (2010–2014) (R E Mitchell and C Z Yuan)
  • High Energy Physics at IHEP (Yifang Wang)
  • Light Hadron Physics at BES Experiment (S S Fang)
  • Charmonium and Charmonium-like States (Kai Zhu)
  • Charmed Meson Physics (Hailong Ma)
  • τ Physics at BESIII (Jianyong Zhang)
  • R Measurements and QCD Studies at the BES Experiments (Guangshun Huang)
  • Nucleon/Hyperon Physics at BES (Stephen Lars Olsen)
  • New Physics Program of BES (Dayong Wang)
  • The BESIII and its Upgrade (M Y Dong)

 

Readership: Researchers in elementary particle physics.