For a decade, the PEP-II/BaBar B-factory has been a flagship experiment
in precision measurements in the flavor sector, notably in the decays of
B and charm mesons. Before its shutdown in April, the B-factory took a
new direction and secured the world's largest samples of Upsilon(3S) and
Upsilon(2S) mesons and performed an extensive scan above the Upsilon(4S)
resonance. I will talk about the motivation for this change of course
and our new results in both the search for the ground state of
bottomonium and the search for evidence of new physics at a low mass
scale, including both the Higgs and dark matter.
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