17–24 Jul 2013
KTH and Stockholm University Campus
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Studies of rare Bs and B0 decays to dimuons at CMS

19 Jul 2013, 15:00
15m
D1 (KTH Campus)

D1

KTH Campus

Talk presentation Flavour Physics and Fundamental Symmetries Flavour Physics and fundamental symmetries

Speaker

Urs Langenegger (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))

Description

Rare beauty meson decays B_s,d to mu+mu- are searched in pp collisions at LHC using a data sample collected by the CMS experiment. These decays are highly suppressed in the standard model. They can only proceed through the flavor-changing neutral currents, which are forbidden at tree-level diagrams. These decays are an excellent probe to the new physics; any difference between the measured branching fraction and the standard model prediction could provide a smoking gun signal of new physics.

Primary author

Dr Kerstin Borras (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

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