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Stanford accelerator takes lead in race to quantify CP violation

Article Abstract:

The international collaboration of physicists working on BaBar, the detector in the B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, could produce new estimates for charge-parity (CP) violation, a critical element in the Standard Model of particle physics, by the second half of 2000. The B-factory is competing with another international team operating at the Japanese B-factory at KEK, the particle accelerator at Tsukuba, Japan. Current estimates of CP violation are based on observations of the K meson or kaon, but much better measurements should be obtained from researching decay channels of B mesons.

Analysis, Mesons, Nuclear research, Radioactivity

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'Science and society' course is under threat at Stanford

Article Abstract:

Stanford University, California, is on the verge of scrapping the Science, Technology and Society (STS) program as it is unable to defend interdisciplinary work due to financial cutbacks. The indifference of senior faculty members and the absence of an incentive structure have made the program unsuccessful. However, STS specialists view the whole issue as an attack from scientists and engineers doubting the program's usefulness. Engineers are not convinced about social scientists' ability to come up with any useful assessment of science.

Reports, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Curricula, Social scientists, Curriculum evaluation

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Stanford and Cornell in the frame for B-meson factory

Article Abstract:

There are many supporters of the B-meson factory project which will produce large number of B-meson by colliding electrons and positrons. The decision to build it at Stanford (California) or at Cornell University (New York) has to be made before the summer of 1993. Some physicists, however, are doubtful about the factory being built, as the Congress is planning to withdraw the amount allocated for the project.

Design and construction, Buildings and facilities, Cornell University, Particle accelerators

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