[HTML][HTML] 50 Years of quantum chromodynamics: Introduction and Review

F Gross, E Klempt, SJ Brodsky, AJ Buras… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of quarks and gluons, whose interactions can be
described by a local SU (3) gauge symmetry with charges called “color quantum numbers” …

Flavour anomalies in heavy quark decays

J Albrecht, D van Dyk, C Langenbruch - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent measurements of b-hadron decays show a pattern of consistent tensions with the
respective Standard Model (SM) predictions. These tensions appear both in the sector of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Rare b decays meet high-mass Drell-Yan

A Greljo, J Salko, A Smolkovič, P Stangl - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Rare b hadron decays are considered excellent probes of new semileptonic four-
fermion interactions of microscopic origin. However, the same interactions also correct the …

Measurement of -Averaged Observables in the Decay

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
An angular analysis of the B 0→ K* 0 (→ K+ π-) μ+ μ-decay is presented using a dataset
corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1 of pp collision data collected with the …

Angular Analysis of the Decay

R Aaij, CA Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We present an angular analysis of the B+→ K*+(→ KS 0 π+) μ+ μ-decay using 9 fb-1 of pp
collision data collected with the LHCb experiment. For the first time, the full set of CP …

Measurement of CP-Averaged Observables in the B0→ K* 0μ+ μ− Decay

LHCb Collaboration - Physical Review Letters, 2020, Vol. 125 …, 2020 - dau.url.edu
An angular analysis of the B0→ K* 0 (→ K+ π−) μ+ μ− decay is presented using a dataset
corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb− 1 of pp collision data collected with the …

Physics case for an LHCb Upgrade II-Opportunities in flavour physics, and beyond, in the HL-LHC era

I Bediaga, MC Torres, JM De Miranda, A Gomes… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
The LHCb Upgrade II will fully exploit the flavour-physics opportunities of the HL-LHC, and
study additional physics topics that take advantage of the forward acceptance of the LHCb …

Implications of new evidence for lepton-universality violation in decays

LS Geng, B Grinstein, S Jäger, SY Li, JM Camalich… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Motivated by renewed evidence for new physics in b→ s ℓ ℓ transitions in the form of LHCb's
new measurements of theoretically clean lepton-universality ratios and the purely leptonic B …

[HTML][HTML] B-decay discrepancies after Moriond 2019

J Aebischer, W Altmannshofer, D Guadagnoli… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
Following the updated measurement of the lepton flavour universality (LFU) ratio R_K RK in
B → K ℓ ℓ B→ K ℓ ℓ decays by LHCb, as well as a number of further measurements, eg R …