Abstract

The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan, is a second-generation B factory experiment. Approximately 500 pb-1 of collision data, where taken during May, June, and July of 2018. Physics data taking will start again next year. Belle II benefits from an approximate factor of 40 increase in the instantaneous luminosity with respect to the previous Belle / KEKB experiment, due to significantly reduced beam interaction profile, and higher beam current. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the status of the experiment, and some commissioning results on first data. I will then focus on physics prospects for early data as well as some select important physics measurements over the lifetime of the experiment.