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Comprehensive Bayesian Analysis of Rare (Semi)leptonic and Radiative B Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-10-16 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The available data on ΔB=ΔS=1|\Delta B| = |\Delta S| = 1 decays are in good agreement with the Standard Model when permitting subleading power corrections of about 15% at large hadronic recoil. Constraining new-physics effects in C7\mathcal{C}_7, C9\mathcal{C}_9, C10\mathcal{C}_{10}, the data still demand the same size of power corrections as in the Standard Model. In the presence of chirality-flipped operators, all but one of the power corrections reduce substantially. The Bayes factors are in favor of the Standard Model. Using new lattice inputs for BKB\to K^* form factors, the evidence of models with chirality-flipped operators increases, but does not outperform the Standard Model. We use the data to further constrain the hadronic form factors in BKB\to K and BKB\to K^* transitions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1310.2478,
  title  = {Comprehensive Bayesian Analysis of Rare (Semi)leptonic and Radiative B Decays},
  author = {Frederik Beaujean and Christoph Bobeth and Danny van Dyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2478},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

18 pages, 4 figures. v3: 1) Corrected errors in the numerical implementation of B->K ll at low q^2 with chirality-flipped operators, 2) added missing systematic uncertainties in B->K^(*) form factors from the lattice, 3) removed erroneously used high q^2 observables from data set "selection". Updated tables and figures, and a slightly revised conclusion. The main conclusions are unaffected