Particle Physics in Birmingham

Particle Physics Seminar

Wednesday 21st April 2021 at 13:30
ZOOM

(virtual coffee served at 13:15)

B -> l+ l-

Mick Mulder (CERN)


Abstract

Over the last decade, measurements probing the flavour changing neutral current transition b->sl+l- have shown However, interpreting the results as physics beyond the SM is complicated by our current understanding of hadronic uncertainties in these predictions. It is therefore essential to measure observables that are theoretically clean and unaffected by hadronic uncertainties. In this seminar, I will present new results on two key processes using the complete dataset collected by the LHCb experiment so far, in addition to a new result on B meson production that is essential for one of these two measurements.