16–21 Sept 2013
Natal, Brazil
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Beyond-SM searches in B -> D(*) tau nu and rare decays at BaBar

19 Sept 2013, 16:00
30m
Sala Madeira (Hotel Pestana)

Sala Madeira

Hotel Pestana

talk Working Group 3 Working Group 3

Speaker

Denis Derkach (University of Oxford (GB))

Description

We present the measurement of  the B -> D(*) tau nu decay, which is sensitive at tree level to New Physics in the form of a charged Higgs boson. The measured branching fraction is 3.4 sigma  larger than the SM predictions, and excludes the 2HDM of type 2 at 99.88% confidence for all tan(beta)/mHiggs values. Additional studies of the momentum transferred to the lepton system show that the result can be accommodated by more general two-Higgs-Doublet models. Searches for rare decays sensitive to New Physics, as  radiative and electroweak penguin decays are also reported.

Primary author

Denis Derkach (University of Oxford (GB))

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