Survey of rare B decays: 1997 - 2003

by George W.S. HOU (National Taiwan University)

Friday 22 Sept 2000, 14:00 → 14:15 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

Since 1997 a large number of charmless hadronic rare B decays have emerged at CLEO, sometimes without warning like the huge B —> h' K and h' + Xs modes, and have stimulated tremendous theoretical development. We review the highlights of 1997-2000, and give a projection for what may emerge in the next 3 years, the era of B Factories. Main topics to be covered are: the story of large g and factorization as indicated by data; possibility of final state interaction phases; direct CP violating asymmetries; some (sometimes perverse) New Physics probes and prospects; charmless baryonic modes; etc. We will cover full ground of strong (e.g. B —> f K), electromagnetic (e.g. B —> rg) and electroweak penguins (e.g. B —> K* l+ l-).