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Experimental Challenges — Summary<br />

High statistics → High luminosity<br />

◆ Accelerator per<strong>for</strong>mance comes first.<br />

◆ Detector must cope with rate and background.<br />

High efficiency and good mass resolution<br />

◆ Maximize coverage. Minimize material.<br />

Vertex resolution<br />

◆ High-resolution, wide-coverage vertex detector.<br />

Flavor tagging<br />

◆ Particle identification.<br />

<strong>PEP</strong>-<strong>II</strong> / <strong>BABAR</strong> designed to meet these demands.<br />

<strong>First</strong> <strong>Year</strong> <strong>of</strong> BaBar/<strong>PEP</strong>-<strong>II</strong> Masahiro Morii SLAC

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