Status of flavour physics and opportunities for the new physics search in the b --> sl⁺l^- mode at LHCb and at SuperB

par M. Tobias Hurth (CERN)

jeudi 12 mars 2009, 14:00 → 15:00 US/Central

I first review the status of flavour physics, discuss the importance of the interplay of high P_T and flavour physics for the new physics search, and then show in the rare decay mode B --> K^*l⁺l^- in an exemplary mode how well new physics signals can be separated from hadronic uncertainties using soft-collinear effective theory. Moreover, I show how to design new observable in this decay mode optimized for the detection of specific new physics structures. Finally, I briefly discuss the opportunities in the corresponding inclusive mode \bar B -->X_sl⁺l^-.

Poster SemT.Hurth.pdf