4–11 Jul 2012
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Australia/Melbourne timezone
ICHEP2012 - 36th International Conference for High Energy Physics

Studies of rare beauty and charm decays with the CMS experiment

6 Jul 2012, 15:00
15m
Room 217 (Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre)

Room 217

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Melbourne Australia
Parallel Sessions Track 7. CP Violation, CKM, Rare Decays, Meson Spectroscopy Room 217 - Heavy Ion Collisions / B-Physics / CP Violation - TR5/7/9

Speaker

Mr Keith Ulmer (University of Colorado at Boulder (US))

Description

The rare decays B_s(B^0)->mu+mu-, B0->K*mu+mu- and D0->mu+mu- are excellent tests of the flavor sector of the Standard Model and are sensitive to new physics. We report on studies of these decays performed with the CMS experiment using pp collisions data collected in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. We present the first observation of the excited B baryon Xi_b* in the strong decays to Xi_b- and a charged pion, performed with the CMS experiment at sqrt(s)=7 TeV. In addition, we present measurements of B hadron lifetimes.

Primary author

Mr Keith Ulmer (University of Colorado at Boulder (US))

Presentation materials