Flavor 2019: new Physics in flavor from LHC to Belle II

May 20, 2019, 11:00 AM → May 22, 2019, 6:30 PM Europe/Berlin

E.0.11 (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) )

David Straub (TUM), Johannes Albrecht (TU Dortmund), Jure Zupan, Thomas Kuhr (LMU), Wolfgang Altmannshofer

The topical workshop  "Flavor 2019: new Physics in flavor from LHC to Belle II" is a three-day workshop to be held at MIAPP from May 20-22 2019. It will focus on the hot topics in flavor physics in an era where new and exciting results are coming in from LHC experiments, but also the Belle-II experiment has entered the stage. The workshop is embedded in the 4-week program "Beyond the Standard Model with Precision Flavor Experiments". Registration for the workshop is independent of the participation in the program (but program participants are invited to register and participate).

There will be no workshop fee. Participants interested to join the conference dinner, will have to pay in cash upon arrival. The amount will be published soon. A receipt stating that we received money to cover expenses related to the topical workshop will be issued but we are not allowed to issue invoices.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Admir Greljo (CERN)
• Diego Guadagnoli (Annecy)
• Jernej Kamenik (Ljubljana)
• Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab)
• Zoltan Ligeti (Berkeley)
• Matthias Neubert (Mainz)
• Paride Paradisi (Padua)

Poster Flavor.pdf

Monday, May 20

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch break

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Registration

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Flavor Physics at Belle II

The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric $e^+ e^-$ collider is a substantial upgrade of the B factory facility at the Japanese KEK laboratory. The design luminosity of the machine is $8\times 10^{35}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ and the Belle II experiment aims to record 50 ab$^{-1}$ of data, a factor of 50 more than its predecessor. With this data set, Belle II will be able to measure the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, the matrix elements and their phases, with unprecedented precision and explore flavor physics with $B$ and charmed mesons, and $\tau$ leptons. Belle II has also a unique capability to search for low mass dark matter and low mass mediators. We also expect exciting results in quarkonium physics with Belle II. From February to July of this year, the machine has completed a commissioning run, achieved a peak luminosity of $5.5\times 10^{33}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, and Belle II has recorded a data sample of about 0.5 fb$^{-1}$. Regular operations are expected to start in March 2019. In this presentation, we will review the status of the Belle II detector, the results of the commissioning run and the near-term prospects for physics at Belle II.

Speaker: Francesco Tenchini

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2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Anomalies in b->s ll transitions (LHCb)

The concept of lepton universality, where the muon and tau particles are simply heavier copies of the electron, is a key prediction in the Standard Model (SM). In models beyond the SM, lepton universality can be naturally violated with new physics particles that couple preferentially to the second and third generation leptons. Over the last few years, several hints of lepton universality violation have been seen in both b->c and b->s semileptonic beauty decays. This presentation will review the anomalies in b->s ll transitions and give an outlook for the near future.

Speaker: Titus Mombächer

2_Mombaecher_Flavor2019.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Progress in Lattice QCD in the B and D Systems

Speaker: Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab)

3_ask4miapp.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Muon Lepton Flavor Violation

Speaker: Angela Papa

4_Papa_MuonCLFV_MIAPP2019.pdf

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Lepton Flavor Violation

Speaker: Lorenzo Calibbi

5_calibbi_miapp19.pdf

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Tau/Charm factory

Speaker: Simon Eidelmann

6_eidelmann_tau.pdf

Tuesday, May 21

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Aligned and Spontaneous Flavor Violation

We present a spurion setup called Spontaneous Flavor Violation (SFV) that allows for new physics couplings to quarks that are aligned with the Standard Model Yukawas, but do not necessarily share their hierarchies nor are family universal. We show that SFV naturally arises in theories where the quark family number and CP groups are spontaneously broken at a UV scale. In SFV extensions of the Standard Model, FCNCs are strongly suppressed via the GIM mechanism. We apply this novel flavor Ansatz to a 2HDM, showing that new physics with significant and preferential couplings to first or second generation quarks may be at the electroweak scale. The SFV Ansatz provides strong motivation to search for new physics with generation-specific couplings at colliders.

Speaker: Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic (Stony Brook University)

SFV.pdf

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Flavor Clockwork

Speaker: Adrian Carmona

miapp.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Effective Field Theories for X Y Z

Speaker: Nora Brambilla (Physik Department, TU Munich)

miapp019brambilla.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Exotic and Conventional Quarkonium Physics Prospects at Belle II

The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric $e^+ e^-$ collider is a substantial upgrade of the B factory facility at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan. It aims to record a factor of 50 times more data than its predecessor. The experiment completed a commissioning run in 2018, and began full operation in early 2019. Belle II is uniquely capable of studying the so-called "XYZ" particles: heavy exotic hadrons consisting of more than three quarks. First discovered by Belle, these now number in the dozens, and represent the emergence of a new category within quantum chromodynamics. This talk will present the prospects of Belle II to explore both exotic and conventional quarkonium physics.

Speaker: Vladimir Savinov

10_savinov_Flavor_2019_final.pdf

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM CP violation and rare decays in charm decays with LHCb

The LHCb experiment has collected large samples of decays of charmed hadrons, and has made measurements of CP violation and mixing parameters with world-leading precision. Recent results on charm physics at LHCb are presented.

Speaker: Angelo Di Canto

11_dicanto_flavor2019.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM CP violation in charm

Speaker: Jernej Kamenik

kamenik_CPV_Charm.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Semileptonic and leptonic results from 2018 Belle II commissioning data

The Belle II experiment, located at the SuperKEKB accelerator complex near Tokyo in
Japan, has started its 2019 run to collect collision events at large instantaneous
luminosities. In this presentation we show first results from studying missing energy
signatures, such as leptonic and semileptonic B meson decays: We report first studies
on re-measuring important standard candle processes, such as abundant inclusive B to l X and B to D l decays, and evaluate the performance of our machine learning based
tagging algorithms. In addition, we plan to show first results on control regions and
sidebands relevant for re-establishing B to D and B decays with future Belle II data. We
further discuss the potential of Belle II to study the present day anomaly in ratios of
charm semileptonic decays with tau-leptons to light leptons, known as R(D) and R(D*)in
the literature, with future Belle II data and its potential to measure similar ratios with
other hadronic final states.

Speaker: Cao Lu

LuCAO_Flavor2019.pdf

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM A four-dimensional form-factor fit to B->D*lnu with hadronic tagging from BaBar

We present results on the first full 4-dimensional angular analysis of B->Dlnu, using the e+e- collision dataset collected by the BaBar experiment at the Y(4S) resonance. One B meson from the Y(4S)->BBbar decay is fully reconstructed in a hadronic decay mode which constrains the kinematics and provides a precise determination of the neutrino momentum vector. We extract the underlying hadronic form-factors employing the model-independent BGL approach and a value for the CKM matrix element Vcb. Last, employing our measured BGL form-factors, we provide new predictions within the Standard Model, for observables related to the the semi-tauonic decay B->Dtaunu.

Speaker: Biplap Dey

14_Flavor19_Dstlnu_Biplab.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda_c\ell\bar\nu$ and $V_{cb}$: keep HQETing

Speaker: Zoltan Ligeti

15ZLmiapp19.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM The flavor of ALP

Speaker: Prof. Matthias Neubert (JGU Mainz)

Neubert_Munich.pdf

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Axion flavour models and ALP production at B factories

Speaker: Luca Merlo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

Merlo, Axion Flavour Models and ALP Production at B-Factories (Flavour19 Munich).pdf

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM BSM Physics with Kaon Decays at NA62

The NA62 experiment at CERN SPS was designed to measure BR(K+ -> pi+ nu nu-bar) with in-flight decays, a novel technique for this channel. NA62 took its first physics data in 2016, reaching sensitivity to the decay at the Standard Model BR. The experiment collected 10 times more statistics in 2017 and a similar amount of data is expected from the 2018 run. The result on K+ -> pi+ nu nu from the full 2016 data set will be presented and prospects for future improvements will be discussed.
A large sample of charged kaon decays into final states with multiple charged particles was also collected in 2016-2018. The sensitivity to a number of Lepton Flavour and Lepton Number violating K+ decays provided by this data set is an order of magnitude beyond the current state of the art. Results of the search for these processes with a partial NA62 data sample are available for presentation.

Speaker: Rainer Wanke

NA62_Munich_May19.pdf

7:30 PM → 9:30 PM Conference Dinner

Wednesday, May 22

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Radiative decays at LHCb

Speaker: Biplap Dey

Flavor19_RadPen_Biplab.pdf

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Flavour Physics with High-pT Leptons

Speaker: Dr Admir Greljo (CERN)

greljo-miapp-2019.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM More tests of B-decay discrepancies

Speaker: Diego Guadagnoli (TUM)

Guadagnoli_MIAPP_2019.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Theory progress in inclusive b->qll decays

Speaker: Tobias Huber

munichmiapp2019.pdf

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Power corrections to the inclusive b > s,d ll decays

Speaker: Tobias Hurth

23_Hurth_MIAPP2019final.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Charm-loop effect in B->K(*)ll decays beyond leading twist

We revisit soft gluon contributions to the "charm loop" effect in rare $B\to K^{(*)}ll$ decays, which is a large systematic uncertainty in the interpretation of the $b$-anomalies. Since these contributions are dominated by long-distance effects and are resistant to factorization attempts, we employ the method of light-cone sum rules to compute the relevant hadronic matrix elements. Our calculation extends previous works by considering the full set of the three-particle $B$-meson distribution amplitudes. We provide first numerical results, and discuss qualitatively their impact on the extraction of the Wilson coefficient $C_9$.

Speaker: Nico Gubernari (technische universität münchen)

talk MPA.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Vcb

Speaker: Christoph Schwanda

munich_schwanda.pdf

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM CP violation in beauty decays with LHCb

Precision measurements of CP violating observables in b hadron decays are powerful probes to search for physics effects beyond the Standard Model. The most recent results on CP violation in the decay, mixing and interference of b hadrons obtained by the LHCb Collaboration will be presented, with particular focus on results obtained exploiting the data collected during the Run 2 of LHC. These results represent the world's best constraints, some of which are world-first measurements, of the CP violating phase phi_s.

Speaker: Mirco Dorigo

talk_mirco_flavor2019.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM High-pT Signatures in Vector-Leptoquark Models

We present a detailed analysis of the collider signatures of TeV-scale massive vector bosons motivated by the hints of lepton flavour non-universality observed in $B$-meson decays. We analyse three representations that necessarily appear together in a large class of ultraviolet-complete models: a colour-singlet ($Z'$), a colour-triplet (the $U_1$ leptoquark), and a colour octet ($G'$). Under general assumptions for the interactions of these exotic states with Standard Model fields, including in particular possible right-handed and flavour off-diagonal couplings or the $U_1$, we derive a series of stringent bounds on masses and couplings that constrain a wide range of explicit new-physics models.

Speaker: Michael Baker (University of Zurich)

Baker.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Anomalies in semileptonic B decays (LHCb)

Rare decays are powerful probes for Physics beyond the Standard Model (SM), as new particles can have a large impact on physics observables. Recent results on lepton universality tests and measurements of branching fractions and angular distributions of rare b->sll decays have shown tensions with the SM predictions. A review of the latest lepton universality tests in semileptonic b →clν transitions is reported.

Speaker: Annarita Buonaura

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4:30 PM → 5:00 PM New Physics in b → c τ ν: From R(D), R(D*) to Polarisation Observables, B_c → τ ν, and Λ_b → Λ_c τ ν

In this talk I review the status of new physics in b→cτν transitions in the EFT framework of dimension-six operators, including the very recent Belle results. The fit results, including the recent measurement of FL(D), are presented for all one- and two-dimensional scenarios resulting from the tree level exchange of a single new particle. Particular emphasis is put on the constraint from the Bc→τν decay rate. I introduce a sum rule for the branching ratios of B→Dτν, B→Dτν and Λb→Λc τν which holds for any NP contribution to the Wilson coefficients and predicts an enhancement of the latter decay w.r.t. the Standard Model. I also discuss correlations between the polarisation observables in B→Dτν, B→D*τν and their model-discriminating prospects.

Speaker: Monika Blanke (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

MIAPP2019.pdf