Exploring Next-to-minimal Flavour Violation

by Vladimir Shevchenko (ITEP and CERN)

Friday 26 Oct 2007, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

We discuss a wide class of flavour-physics models, known as next-to-minimal flavour violation (NMFV). New Physics couples dominantly to the third generation quarks in these models, while the unitarity of the CKM matrix is assumed to be preserved. The way of representing CKM matrix elements on ternary diagrams is presented, which is complementary to the conventional UT language. Possible experimental signatures of certain NMFV scenarios, in particular in rare exclusive B decays, are studied.

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