Universe Colloquium: Searches for New Physics in B meson decays with the LHC

by Louise Oakes (Universe Cluster Fellow, TU Muenchen)

Wednesday 23 Nov 2011, 16:30 → 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Universe

In the first two years of data taking, the LHC experiments have quickly come to lead the experimental field in studies of B meson decays.  The precise measurement of B meson decay characteristics has strong potential to reveal physics beyond the Standard Model, due to clear theoretical constraints on the decay parameters. This talk will focus on measurements from ATLAS, CMS and LHCb in B meson decays, with highlights such as the rare decay search for B_s-> mu mu, and CP violation in Bs-> J/psi phi decays. Comparisons to the latest Tevatron results will be made. Future prospects for these analyses will be discussed, including the status of new physics searches in B meson decays with the ATLAS experiment being carried out by the Universe Cluster group.