Garchinger Maier-Leibnitz-Kolloquium: Precision calculations for exclusive B-meson decays using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

by Dr Philipp Böer and Dr. Yanbing Wei (Physik-Department T31, TUM)

Thursday 11 Feb 2021, 16:15 → 17:15 Europe/Berlin

Virtual

Decays of B-mesons play an important role in precision tests of the flavour-structure of the Standard Model of particle physics, as well as in indirect searches for novel "New Physics" phenomena. On the one hand, precise theoretical predictions for B-meson decays are inevitable to draw reliable conclusions from the expected high-precision measurements by the LHCb and BELLE II experiments. On the other hand, the non-perturbative hadronic environment makes these particularly challenging tasks. A first principles approach for the theoretical description of B-meson decays into light and energetic final-state particles is the so-called factorization approach, which in the modern language of effective field theories is formalized as the Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. In this talk we will discuss recent  developments on how subdominant effects can be systematically included within this framework. First, we will discuss how a factorization theory of electromagnetic effects can be achieved for non-leptonic decay amplitudes, and the second part focusses on power-corrections in the large mass/energy expansion for the purely radiative decay into two photons.

Online via ZOOM:
               
    https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/j/98457332925?pwd=TWc3V1JkSHpyOTBPQVlMelhuNnZ1dz09

                   Meeting ID: 984 5733 2925
                   Passcode: 979953

kolloquium-11-02-21.pdf