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Heavy Flavor Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The main purpose of Heavy Flavor experiments is to discover physics beyond the Standard Model, or characterize it, should it be found elsewhere. Thus, current limits on New Physics (NP) are reviewed. New results are presented, some involving processes that could show NP even with current data. Specific topics include the CKM element |Vub|, the forward-backward asymmetry in B -> K* mu+ mu-, b-hadron fractions at the LHC, B(Bs -> mu+ mu-), first observations of several Bs and Bc decay modes, the X(4140), new b-baryons and their decays, searches for Majorana neutrinos, and Lepton Flavor Violation.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1109.3361,
  title  = {Heavy Flavor Physics},
  author = {Sheldon Stone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.3361},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

To appear in Proceedings of the DPF-2011 Conference, Providence, RI, August 8-13, 2011, 16 pages, 26 figures; version 2 fixed some typographical errors

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