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SuperB is a high luminosity e + e − collider that will be able to indirectly probe new physics at energy scales far beyond the reach of any man made accelerator planned or in existence. Just as detailed understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics was developed from stringent constraints imposed by flavour changing processes between quarks, the detailed structure of any new physics is severely constrained by flavour processes. In order to elucidate this structure it is necessary to perform a number of complementary studies of a set of golden channels. With these measurements in hand, the pattern of deviations from the Standard Model behavior can be used as a test of the structure of new physics. If new physics is found at the LHC, then the many golden measurements from SuperB will help decode the subtle nature of the new physics. However if no new particles are found at the LHC, SuperB will be able to search for new physics at energy scales up to 10 − 100 TeV. In either scenario, flavour physics measurements that can be made at SuperB play a pivotal role in understanding the nature of physics beyond the Standard Model. Examples for using the interplay between measurements to discriminate New Physics models are discussed in this document.SuperB is a Super Flavour Factory, in addition to studying large samples of B u,d,s , D and τ decays, SuperB has a broad physics programme that includes spectroscopy both in terms of the Standard Model and exotica, and precision measurements of sin 2 θ W . In addition to performing CP violation measurements at the Υ (4S) and φ(3770), SuperB will test CP T in these systems, and lepton universality in a number of different processes. The multitude of rare decay measurements possible at SuperB can be used to constrain scenarios of physics beyond the Standard Model. In terms of other precision tests of the Standard Model, this experiment will be able to perform precision over-constraints of the unitarity triangle through multiple measurements of all angles and sides.

A description of the main features of e.m. and hadronic shower simulation models used in the FLUKA code is summarized and some recent applications are discussed. The general status of the FLUKA project is also reported.

The use of charge conjugate reactions is implied throughout the paper.

We present a preliminary measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in fully reconstructed B 0 →D (*)± π ∓ and B 0 →D ± ρ ∓ decays in approximately 110 million Υ (4S) → BB decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. From a maximum likelihood fit to the time-dependent decay distributions we obtain for the CP-violating parameters: a Dπ = −0.032 ± 0.031 (stat.) ± 0.020 (syst.), c Dπ lep = −0.059 ± 0.055 (stat.) ± 0.033 (syst.) on the B 0 →D ± π ∓ sample, a D * π = −0.049 ± 0.031 (stat.) ± 0.020 (syst.), c D * π lep = +0.044 ± 0.054 (stat.) ± 0.033 (syst.) on the B 0 →D * ± π ∓ sample, and a Dρ = −0.005 ± 0.044 (stat.) ± 0.021 (syst.), c Dρ lep = −0.147 ± 0.074 (stat.) ± 0.035 (syst.) on the B 0 →D ± ρ ∓ sample.