Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model

A Crivellin, B Mellado - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The standard model (SM) of particle physics is the mathematical description of the
fundamental constituents and interactions of matter. Its last missing particle, the Higgs …

Precise measurement of the ratio of fragmentation fractions and of decay branching fractions

R Aaij, CA Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The ratio of the B s 0 and B 0 fragmentation fractions, fs/fd, in proton-proton collisions at the
LHC, is obtained as a function of B-meson transverse momentum and collision center-of …

Non-factorisable effects in the decays and from LCSR

ML Piscopo, AV Rusov - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In light of the current discrepancies between the recent predictions based on QCD
factorisation (QCDF) and the experimental data for several non-leptonic colour-allowed two …

Lifetimes of b-hadrons and mixing of neutral B-mesons: theoretical and experimental status

J Albrecht, F Bernlochner, A Lenz, A Rusov - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
In this article, we review the current status of B-mixing and b-hadron lifetimes both from
experimental and theoretical points of view. Furthermore, we discuss the phenomenological …

Probing new physics in class-I B-meson decays into heavy-light final states

FM Cai, WJ Deng, XQ Li, YD Yang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract With updated experimental data and improved theoretical calculations, several
significant deviations are being observed between the Standard Model predictions and the …

Disintegration of beauty: a precision study

A Lenz, ML Piscopo, AV Rusov - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We update the Standard Model (SM) predictions for B-meson lifetimes within the
heavy quark expansion (HQE). Including for the first time the contribution of the Darwin …

Diquark explanation of

A Crivellin, M Kirk - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The discrepancies between b→ s ℓ+ ℓ-data and the corresponding Standard Model
predictions point to the existence of new physics with a significance at the 5 σ level. While …

Exploiting dijet resonance searches for flavor physics

M Bordone, A Greljo, D Marzocca - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract In this work, we reinterpret ATLAS and CMS dijet resonance searches to set robust
constraints on all hypothetical tree-level scalar and vector mediators with masses up to 5 …

Implications for new physics from a novel puzzle in decays

S Iguro, T Kitahara - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Recently, the standard model predictions for the B-meson hadronic decays, B¯ 0→ D (*)+ K-
and B¯ s 0→ D s (*)+ π-, have been updated based on the QCD factorization approach. This …

Using decays as a portal to new physics

R Fleischer, E Malami - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The system of B s 0→ D s∓ K±decays offers a theoretically clean determination of the angle
γ of the unitarity triangle. A corresponding LHCb analysis resulted in a surprisingly large …