Hints for New Physics in Rare B Decays

Speaker: 
Wolfgang Altmannshofer
Institution: 
University of Cincinnati
Date: 
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Time: 
11:00 am
Location: 
FRH 4135
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Abstract:
In this talk I will discuss the implications of recent results from LHCb that show intriguing hints for lepton flavor universality (LFU) violation in rare B meson decays.These hints are fully consistent with several other anomalies that have been observed in rare B decays in the last few years.An excellent description of all the data is obtained by new physics in form of a single four-fermion contact interaction.I will discuss how robust these results are, their implications for models of new physics, and further measurements that could help establishing new physics in rare B decays with more data.
Host: 
Sebastian Trojanowski