Conveners
(M2-9) Status and Future of Precision Frontier - PPD-DIMP / État et avenir de la frontière de précision -PPD-DPIM
- Florian Urs Bernlochner (University of Victoria (CA))
Steven Robertson
(McGill)
16/06/2014, 15:45
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Since the end of data taking in 2008, the BABAR experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, along with its Japanese counterpart, Belle, has continued to produce interesting scientific results spanning a broad range of topics in heavy flavour physics, QCD and searches for physics beyond the standard model. In this talk I will discuss ongoing activities of the BABAR collaboration...
Prof.
Christopher Hearty
(University of British Columbia/IPP)
16/06/2014, 16:15
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Belle-II will probe the flavour sector of particle physics at the high-luminosity SuperKEKB e+e- collider, located at the KEK laboratory in Japan. Physics operations will start in late 2016, with the goal of collecting by 2022 thirty times the combined integrated luminosity of the two previous generation B-factories, PEP-II at SLAC and KEKB at KEK. This precision-frontier facility will open an...
Mr
Robert Seddon
(McGill University)
16/06/2014, 16:45
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The decay $B^-$ $\rightarrow\Lambda\bar{p}\nu\bar{\nu}$ is a semileptonic, flavour-changing-neutral-current decay. It proceeds exclusively through one-loop box and penguin diagrams and is therefore expected to be heavily suppressed ("rare") within the context of the Standard Model (SM) with a predicted branching fraction of $(7.9 \pm 1.9) \times 10^{-7}$. The possibility of new physics...
Ms
Racha Cheaib
(McGill University)
16/06/2014, 17:00
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Flavour changing neutral current B meson decays, such as $B^{\pm}\to K^{\pm}\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$, are a powerful probe of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Comparison of the experimentally measured rate to SM predictions can provide evidence for new physics. Deviations from the SM prediction might arise due to hypothetical heavy particles such as Supersymmetric quarks or bosons or a...
Ian Michael Nugent
(RWTH-Aachen)
16/06/2014, 17:15
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
The tau lepton is the heaviest of the known charged leptons and therefore provides a unique tool to probe electroweak interactions, low energy QCD and for searching for new physics. New physics may appear in decays with tau leptons in the final state or in decays of the tau lepton. A key ingredient for any physics programs involving the tau lepton is the modeling of the decay structure. In...
