Searching for New Physics in b → sℓ+ℓ− Transitions at the LHCb Experiment

• Main Author: Pescatore, Luca (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

This thesis presents two analyses of semileptonic b → sl+l− decays using Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (FCNCs) to test for the presence of new physics and lepton flavour universality, and the equality of couplings for different leptons, which on the basis of experimental evidence is assumed to ho...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The LHCb Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
• Differential Branching Fraction of Λb0 → Λµ+µ−
• Angular Analysis of Λb0 → Λµ+µ− Decays
• Testing Lepton Favour Universality with RK∗0
• Conclusions.