Introduction to BESIII

The Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) is a particle detector experiment situated at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPCII). It is primarily designed to perform studies of charmonium and charm physics, light hadrons, determination of the tau mass, and \(R\) scans at a center-of-mass energy of ranging between 2 to 5 GeV.

WarningTo do

Elaborate or refer to official pages.

See for instance:

• “Physics Accomplishments and Future Prospects of the BES Experiments at the BEPC Collider” [1]
• “Physics at BESIII” [2]
• “BESIII White Paper” (original memo, requires login) [3]
• “Design and construction of the BESIII detector” [4]

Output of the detector is analyzed using the BESIII Offline Software System (BOSS).

References

[1]

R. A. Briere, F. A. Harris, and R. E. Mitchell, “Physics Accomplishments and Future Prospects of the BES Experiments at the BEPC Collider,” Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 143–170, Oct. 2016, 10.1146/annurev-nucl-102115-044802.

[2]

D. M. Asner et al., “Physics at BES-III.” arXiv, Sept. 2008. 10.48550/arXiv.0809.1869.

[3]

X.-R. Lü and H.-B. Li, “White Paper on the Future Physics Programme of BESIII,” July 2019, https://english.ihep.cas.cn/bes/hi/202201/t20220120_299521.html

[4]

BESIII Collaboration et al., “Design and construction of the BESIII detector,” Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A, vol. 614, no. 3, pp. 345–399, Mar. 2010, 10.1016/j.nima.2009.12.050.