Future of Heavy Flavour Physics: Experimental Perspective

I discuss what measurements need to be done to search for physics beyond the Standard CKM model, rather than just what studies can be done in the near future. It is also important to accurately measure the CKM matrix elements. Current best estimates for two important elements are: |V_{cb}|=0.0381 +/- 0.0021 and |V_{ub}/V_{cb}|=0.085 +/- 0.019. Finally, future experiments are discussed.Comment: Presented at "Heavy Flavours 8," Southampton, UK, July 1999, 9 pages 7 figure

Airship stresses due to vertical velocity gradients and atmospheric turbulence

Munk's potential flow method is used to calculate the resultant moment experienced by an ellipsoidal airship. This method is first used to calculate the moment arising from basic maneuvers considered by early designers, and then expended to calculate the moment arising from vertical velocity gradients and atmospheric turbulence. This resultant moment must be neutralized by the transverse force of the fins. The results show that vertical velocity gradients at a height of 6000 feet in thunderstorms produce a resultant moment approximately three to four times greater than the moment produced in still air by realistic values of pitch angle or steady turning. Realistic values of atmospheric turbulence produce a moment which is significantly less than the moment produced by maneuvers in still air

Future B Experiments from The BTeV/LHC-b Perspective

Many measurements are necessary in the program of studying mixing, CP violation and rare decays of b and c quarks. These measurements require large numbers of B^o, B_s, B^- and D^{*+} hadrons. Fortunately, copius production of particles containing b and c quarks will occur at Tevatron and the LHC. The crucial measurements are described here, as well as the design of the two experiments, LHC-b and BTeV, that can exploit the 4-20 x 10^{11} b hadrons produced every 10^7 seconds.Comment: Presented at the 3rd International Conference on B Physics and CP Violation, Taipei, December 3-7, 1999 15 pages, 10 figure

Experimental Status of BB Physics

A short summary is given of the current status of B physics. Reasons for physics beyond the Standard Model are discussed. Constraints on New Physics are given using measurements of B mixing, Bs mixing, and CP violation, along with |Vub. Future goals, and upcoming new experiments are also mentioned.Comment: Invited talk at X Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico, Nov. 7-12, 2005; 16 pages and 12 figures; (added references

Gender Equality and Reproductive Decision Making

In Evans, both the U.K. High Court and Court of Appeal upheld Howard Johnston’s right to refuse Natallie Evans access to the stored embryos which represented her only hope of having a child which was genetically her own. In this note, I focus on claims of gender (in)equality in the resolution of Evans. My argument is that such claims are often made all too easily, without full consideration of the problems of advancing them in the context of procreative decision-making, where men and women are inevitably differently situated. I conclude that although equality arguments are not wholly without value in this context, they need be used with extreme care. And, with due caution, I set out an equality argument of my own which was not made in Evans

Experimental Results in Heavy Flavor Physics

The interplay of experiment and theory is explored in the context of current data on b and c decay. Measurements of |Vcb| and |Vub| are extracted from existing data. Conservative estimates give |Vcb|=(42.4 +/- 1.2{exp} +/- 2.3{thy})x10^{-3} and |Vub|=(3.90 +/- 0.16{exp} +/- 0.53{thy})x10^{-3}. Using these values along with data on Bd, Bs mixing and CP violation in the K_{Long} system, the allowed region of the CKM parameters rho and eta is derived. Tests of factorization in two-body hadronic B decays to one heavy and one light meson are shown and compared with modern theories which are also used to see if there is new physics in two-body B decays to light mesons. The two new narrow D_{sJ} states, discovered by BaBar and CLEO, respectively, are interpreted in light of the observation of these states in B decays by Belle.Comment: Plenary talk at International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics EPS (July 17th-23rd 2003) in Aachen, Germany, 16 pages, 37 figures. Fixed Table 5 caption on Oct. 18 and errors on Nov. 5, 200