8–12 Sept 2025
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Europe/Zurich timezone

B anomalies: status and prospects from LHCb

9 Sept 2025, 09:00
25m
Alte Mensa (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Alte Mensa

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Alte Mensa JGU Mainz, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 5 (Building 1312) 55128 Mainz
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Speaker

Martino Borsato (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

Description

The study of $b$-quark decays plays a central role in exploring the origin of flavour. Thanks to its large mass, it allows for precise theoretical predictions, and its ability to decay into all four lighter quarks and all three charged leptons provides access to a broad range of flavour observables. Over the last 15 years, LHCb has been collecting an increasingly larger dataset of beauty hadron decays and has tested the Standard Model up to ever higher energy scales. This exploration uncovered a set of intriguing anomalies in semileptonic $b \to c$ and $b \to s$ transitions. In this talk, I will present recent LHCb results and discuss the prospects enabled by the experiment’s recent upgrade.

Authors

Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Martino Borsato (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

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