SuperB, a High-Luminosity Heavy Flavour Factory: Conceptual Design Report

This Conceptual Design Report presents a detailed program of high statistics heavy flavour physics that has sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model through the measurement of CP-violating asymmetries, rare decay branching fractions, and kinematic distributions affected by new heavy particles in the loops of second order diagrams. These studies would be carried out at a novel new accelerator, SuperB, an asymmetric e+e- collider designed to exploit small emittance beams and strong focusing to obtain a luminosity in excess of 1036 cm-2 s-1 at the Y(4S) energy, two orders of magnitude higher than what has been achieved at the two existing B-Factories. The design of the SuperB collider and of an upgraded detector capable of carrying out the physics program are described in detail