Asia-US-Australia Collaboration in the Silicon
Vertex Detector Project for the BELLE High Energy Physics Experiment at KEK
The BELLE detector is the state-of-the-art detector built to investigate CP
violating phenomena. The goal is to identify the origin of Charge
conjugation Parity Violation (CPV) in B-meson decays--a key to explaining
why matter, not anti-matter, dominates the universe. The BELLE detector
contains a high-precision particle trajectory detection system, consisting
of silicon microstrip sensors. This silicon system contains about 100K
channels, which will be read by a high-speed, online data system. All
electronic channels must be constantly monitored and calibrated.
The BELLE collaboration consists of 49 institutions from 11 countries
(Australia, China, India, Korea, Japan, Philippines, Poland, Russia,
Taiwan, Ukraine and USA). The participating institutions will jointly
analyze the data generated. The Asia-US-Australia collaboration was formed
to design and build the silicon vertex detector. KEK (High Energy
Accelerator Research Organization) is located in Japan.
