Johannes Albrecht
(CERN)
09/06/2011, 14:30
Rare decays of the B and Bs mesons are sensitive indirect probes of New Physics. In particular, the search for B(s) --> μ+μ– decays provides information on the presence of new (pseudo-)scalar particles, while the angular analysis of decays like B --> K*μ+μ– provides information on possible new vector-axial contributions. Furthermore radiative decays like Bs --> Φγ provide valuable...
Kendall Reeves
(University of Texas at Dallas)
09/06/2011, 14:50
The production of quarkonium is an important testing ground for QCD calculations. The fraction of J/\psi mesons produced from B-hadron decays was measured by the ATLAS experiment and the prompt and non-prompt differential J/\psi production cross-sections determined. The cross-section values extracted from data are compared to predictions from next-to-leading order QCD calculations. Results...
Wolfgang Altmannshofer
(Fermilab)
09/06/2011, 15:10
We discuss the characteristic signals of supersymmetric models in low energy observables that are sensitive to flavour and CP violation. We focus in particular on two of the golden channels at LHCb: the rare Bs - μ+μ− decay and CP violation in Bs mixing.
We show the distinct predictions for the above flavour observables within several supersymmetric frameworks, including the MSSM with Minimal...
Lars Eklund
(University of Glasgow)
09/06/2011, 16:15
Using data collected by the LHCb detector during the 2010 run of the LHC we reconstruct the main charmless charged two-body b-hadron decay modes, namely B0--> pi+pi–, B0 --> K+pi–, Bs0 --> K+K–, Bs0 --> pi+K–, Lamdab --> pK– and Lamdab --> ppi–, and obtain first preliminary measurements of direct CP asymmetries. We also present studies of decays of the type B --> DX, where D is a charmed meson...
