Conveners
B Physics
- Amarjit Soni (BNL)
Mr
Jack Wimberley
(University of Maryland, College Park)
5/5/15, 4:30 PM
parallel talk
The LHCb collaboration has recently released a number of new and updated measurements of the CP violating angles β and φs using the full 2011 and 2012 datasets. These CP violating parameters, which are sensitive to possible BSM physics, are observable in the interference between mixing and b->ccs decays of B and Bs mesons, respectively. LHCb has measured sin(2β) in an analysis of B -> J/ψ KS...
Rodrigo Alonso
(UC San Diego)
5/5/15, 4:45 PM
parallel talk
Flavor physics offers a formidable window into new physics. In particular
rare B-meson decays have received a great share of attention due to recent
anomalous measurements. The customary Effective Field Theory scheme
parametrizes deviations from the Standard Theory at the B meson scale with
operators invariant under electro-magnetism and the strong interactions.
However, if the scale of...
Daniel Patrick O'Hanlon
(University of Warwick (GB))
5/5/15, 5:00 PM
parallel talk
Decays of b-hadrons to suppressed ‘charm-less’ final states are an attractive avenue to test the Standard Model, as they typically proceed via 'penguin' loop diagrams where new physics may enter virtually, and are also sensitive to CP violation via the interference between these penguin processes and the tree-level processes. We present the latest studies of such decays on the Run 1 dataset of...
Shanmuka Shivashankara
(University of Mississippi)
5/5/15, 5:15 PM
parallel talk
At present, there are several hints of lepton flavor non-universality. The LHCb Collaboration has measured $R_K$≡$B(B^+→K^+μ^+μ^−)/B(B^+→K^+e^+e^−)$, and the BaBar Collaboration has measured $R(D^{(∗)})$≡$B(\bar{B}→D^{(∗)+}τ^−\bar{ν}_τ)/B(\bar{B}→D^{(∗)+}ℓ^−\bar{ν}_ℓ)$ $(ℓ=e,μ)$. In all cases, the experimental results differ from the standard model predictions by 2-3$σ$. Recently, an...
Mohammad Ahmady
(Mount Allison University)
5/5/15, 5:30 PM
parallel talk
We use the light front wavefunction predicted by holographic anti–de Sitter/Chromodynamics (AdS/QCD) for $K^*$ vector meson to obtain the form factors for exclusive dileptonic rare $B \to K^* \mu^+ \mu^-$ decay. Consequently, the differential decay rate, isospin and forward-backward asymmetry distributions for this transition mode are obtained and compared with the latest available...
Dr
alessandro bertolin
(LHCb - INFN (Padova))
5/5/15, 5:45 PM
parallel talk
The weak phase $\gamma$ is one of the least well-determined CKM
parameters.
It can be measured using time-independent decay rates, such as
those of $B^+ \to D K^+$ with $D \to K^0_s h h$, or by
time-dependent studies, as in $B^0_s \to D_s^{\mp} K^{\pm}$
decays.
The precise determination of $\gamma$ is one of the most important
goals of LHCb.
Several recent time-independent and...
Steffen Maeland
(University of Bergen (NO))
5/5/15, 6:00 PM
Flavor
parallel talk
Latest results in the ATLAS programme of searches and
precision measurement of heavy hadrons are presented. It includes
observation of an excited B_c(2S) state, measurement of the B_c meson
decays, as well as new decay modes of b-hadrons and search for New
Physics signatures in processes that are naturally suppressed in the
Standard Model. We present the latest search for rare B_s ->...
