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Rare FCNC top, beauty and charm decays

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2014-08-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Rare flavour changing neutral current (FCNC) decays of top, beauty and charm quarks can provide a powerful probe for as yet unobserved particles. Recent results on FCNC bsb \to s, cuc \to u and tt transitions from the LHC experiments are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to the angular distribution of the B0K0μ+μB^{0} \to K^{*0} \mu^{+} \mu^{-} decay, where a measurement performed by LHCb shows a local discrepancy of 3.7 standard deviations with respect to the SM prediction. Using the decay B+K+ππ+γB^{+} \to K^{+}\pi^{-}\pi^{+}\gamma, LHCb have also been able to demonstrate the polarisation of photons produced in bsγb \to s\gamma transitions. More work is needed both experimentally and theoretically to understand if the Standard Model description of these rare FCNC processes is correct.

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@article{arxiv.1408.5393,
  title  = {Rare FCNC top, beauty and charm decays},
  author = {Thomas Blake},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5393},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Proceedings for LHCP 2014 conference