9–11 May 2016
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Tests of Lepton Flavour Universality with b-hadron decays at LHCb

10 May 2016, 16:30
15m
G31 (Benedum Hall)

G31

Benedum Hall

parallel talk Heavy Flavor

Speaker

Federico Betti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

Description

Lepton Flavour Universality is enforced in the Standard Model by construction. Any Violation
of LFU would be a clear sign of new physics. Existing hints of non universality are
already present in the leptonic and semileptonic decays of B mesons. The semitauonic decays in particular,
are sensitive to contributions from non-standard-model-particles that preferentially couple to
the third generation of fermions,the Higgs-like charged scalars. Also, electroweak penguin decays can be used to test lepton flavour universality between the first and the second leptonic families. This talk reports recent
studies of $B^0 \to D^* \tau \nu$ and $B^0 \to K^{(*)}ll$ decays at the LHCb experiment.

Primary author

Federico Betti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

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