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 …

Constraints on lepton universality violation from rare decays

M Ciuchini, M Fedele, E Franco, A Paul, L Silvestrini… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The LHCb Collaboration has recently released a new study of B+→ K+ ℓ+ ℓ-and B→ K* 0 ℓ+
ℓ-(ℓ= e, μ) decays, testing lepton universality with unprecedented accuracy using the whole …

Test of Lepton Universality in Decays

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellan Beteta… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The first simultaneous test of muon-electron universality using B+→ K+ ℓ+ ℓ-and B 0→ K* 0
ℓ+ ℓ-decays is performed, in two ranges of the dilepton invariant-mass squared, q 2. The …

Heavy flavour physics and CP violation at LHCb: A ten-year review

S Chen, Y Li, W Qian, Z Shen, Y **e, Z Yang… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
Heavy flavour physics provides excellent opportunities to indirectly search for new physics at
very high energy scales and to study hadron properties for deep understanding of the strong …

global fits after and

M Algueró, B Capdevila, S Descotes-Genon… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
We present an up-to-date complete model-independent global fit to b→ s ℓ ℓ observables
that confirms patterns of New Physics able to explain the data. We include the recent LHCb …

Measurement of lepton universality parameters in and decays

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellan Beteta… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
A simultaneous analysis of the B+→ K+ ℓ+ ℓ-and B 0→ K* 0 ℓ+ ℓ-decays is performed to test
muon-electron universality in two ranges of the square of the dilepton invariant mass, q 2 …

Drell-Yan tails beyond the standard model

L Allwicher, DA Faroughy, F Jaffredo… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We investigate the high-p T tails of the pp→ ℓν and pp→ ℓℓ Drell-Yan processes as
probes of New Physics in semileptonic interactions with an arbitrary flavor structure. For this …

New UTfit analysis of the unitarity triangle in the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa scheme

M Bona, M Ciuchini, D Derkach, F Ferrari… - … Lincei. Scienze Fisiche …, 2023 - Springer
Flavour mixing and CP violation as measured in weak decays and mixing of neutral mesons
are a fundamental tool to test the Standard Model and to search for new physics. New …

Disentangling lepton flavor universal and lepton flavor universality violating effects in transitions

M Algueró, J Matias, B Capdevila, A Crivellin - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
In this paper we propose a strategy for discerning if new physics in the Wilson coefficient C 9
μ is dominantly lepton flavor universality violating or if it contains a sizable lepton flavor …

The Rumble in the Meson: a leptoquark versus a Z′ to fit b → sμ+μ− anomalies including 2022 LHCb measurements

B Allanach, J Davighi - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We juxtapose global fits of two bottom-up models (an S 3 scalar leptoquark model
and a B 3–L 2 Z′ model) of b→ sμ+ μ− anomalies to flavour data in order to quantify …