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G. P. Dubois-Felsmann

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SuperB: a linear high-luminosity B Factory

This paper is based on the outcome of the activity that has taken place during the recent workshop on "SuperB in Italy" held in Frascati on November 11-12, 2005. The workshop was opened by a theoretical introduction of Marco Ciuchini and was structured in two working groups. One focused on the machine and the other on the detector and experimental issues. The present status on CP is mainly based on the results achieved by BaBar and Belle. Estabilishment of the indirect CP violation in B sector in 2001 and of the direct CP violation in 2004 thanks to the success of PEP-II and KEKB e+e- asymmetric B Factories operating at the center of mass energy corresponding to the mass of the Y(4s). With the two B Factories taking data, the Unitarity Triangle is now beginning to be overconstrained by improving the measurements of the sides and now also of the angles alpha, and gamma. We are also in presence of the very intriguing results about the measurements of sin(2 beta) in the time dependent analysis of decay channels via penguin loops, where b --> s sbar s and b --> s dbar d. Tau physics, in particular LFV search, as well as charm and ISR physics are important parts of the scientific program of a SuperB Factory. The physics case together with possible scenarios for the high luminosity SuperB Factory based on the concepts of the Linear Collider and the related experimental issues are discussed.

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Sensitivity of CKM fits to theoretical uncertainties and their representation

There is now a rapidly growing body of experimental data relevant to the question of whether the standard model CKM quark mixing matrix is a correct description of \CP-violation as well as of non--\CP-violating flavor decay processes. In the detailed comparisons with theoretical predictions that are required to investigate this, a key challenge has been the representation of non-statistical uncertainties, especially those arising in theoretical calculations. The analytical procedures that have been used to date require procedural value judgments on this matter that color the interpretation of the quantitative results they produce. Differences arising from these value judgments in the results obtained from the various global CKM fitting techniques in the literature are of a scale comparable to those arising from the other uncertainties in the input data and therefore cannot be ignored. We have developed techniques for studying and visualizing the sensitivity of global CKM fits to non-statistical uncertainties and their parameterization, as well as techniques for visual evaluation of the consistency of experimental and theoretical inputs that minimize the implicit use of such value judgments, while illuminating their effects. We present these techniques and the results of such studies using recently updated theoretical and experimental inputs, discuss their implications for the interpretation of global CKM fits, and illustrate their possible future application as the uncertainties on the inputs are improved over the next several years.

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