Beauty Flavor Tagging at CDF and the Time-of-flicgt detector

Since May 2002 the CDF detector at Fermilab's Tevatron pp collider has collected around 240 pb-1 of physics quality data, about twice the previous Run I data set. New vertexing, triggering and particle identification capabilities have been added enhancing dramatically the CDF's B physics program. In particular, the new Time-of-Flight detector increases the low momentum particle identification capabilities required by one key experimental ingredient for mos of the B physics analysis: b flavor tagging. A brief review of the flavor tagging methods in use at CDF is given. Preliminary Run II flavor tagging results, tagging strategies and projected impact of the TOF detector are summarized. (Author) 7 refs