Leptonic decays of neutral B mesons provide an excellent probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, due to the absence of tree-level flavour-changing neutral currents in the Standard Model and the corresponding smallness of the branching ratio. We present a Two-Higgs-Doublet model in which flavour-changing neutral Higgs couplings to up-type quarks can lift part of the SM suppression. The...
We derive a closed-form false vacuum decay rate at one loop for a single real scalar field in the thin wall limit. We obtain the bounce solution, together with the Euclidean action, counter-terms and RG running, and we extract the functional determinant via the Gel’fand-Yaglom theorem. Our procedure is valid for a generic spacetime dimension D, and we provide an explicit finite renormalized...
We present two lattice studies: The $\bar bb\bar qq$ systems with various quantum numbers using static bottom quarks and $\bar cc \bar qq$ systems with $I(J^{PC})=1(1^{+\pm})$.
Only one set of quantum numbers that couples to $Z_b$ and $\Upsilon\;\pi$ was explored on the lattice before; these studies found an attractive potential between $B$ and $\bar B^*$ resulting in a bound state below the...
In the light of the current hints for new scalars at the LHC at 95 GeV and 151 GeV, I present an analysis of low mass resonances decaying into W bosons. Recasting and combining the SM Higgs analyses of ATLAS and CMS, our results give further support to the existance of such new Higgs bosons.
