[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” …

B Flavor Anomalies: 2021 Theoretical Status Report

D London, J Matias - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
At the present time (2022), there are discrepancies with the predictions of the Standard
Model in several observables involving b→ s ℓ+ ℓ− and decays. These are the B flavor …

Test of lepton universality in beauty-quark decays

Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The standard model of particle physics currently provides our best description of
fundamental particles and their interactions. The theory predicts that the different charged …

Measurement of the ratios of branching fractions and

LHCb Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.02886, 2023 - arxiv.org
The ratios of branching fractions $\mathcal {R}(D^{*})\equiv\mathcal {B}(\bar {B}\to
D^{*}\tau^{-}\bar {\nu} _ {\tau})/\mathcal {B}(\bar {B}\to D^{*}\mu^{-}\bar {\nu} _ {\mu}) $ and …

Test of lepton flavor universality by the measurement of the branching fraction using three-prong decays

R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The ratio of branching fractions R (D*-)≡ B (B 0→ D*-τ+ ν τ)/B (B 0→ D*-μ+ ν μ) is measured
using a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector at center-of …

Drell-Yan tails beyond the standard model

L Allwicher, DA Faroughy, F Jaffredo… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We investigate the high-p T tails of the pp→ ℓν and pp→ ℓℓ Drell-Yan processes as
probes of New Physics in semileptonic interactions with an arbitrary flavor structure. For this …

R (D∗),| Vcb|, and the Heavy Quark Symmetry relations between form factors

D Bigi, P Gambino, S Schacht - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Stringent relations between the B (∗)→ D (∗) form factors exist in the heavy quark
limit and the leading symmetry breaking corrections are known. We reconsider their …

Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions B (B c+→ J/ψ τ+ ν τ)/B (B c+→ J/ψ μ+ ν μ)

R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
A measurement is reported of the ratio of branching fractions R (J/ψ)= B (B c+→ J/ψ τ+ ν τ)/B
(B c+→ J/ψ μ+ ν μ), where the τ+ lepton is identified in the decay mode τ+→ μ+ ν μ ν¯ τ. This …

Measurement of and with a Semileptonic Tagging Method

G Caria, P Urquijo, I Adachi, H Aihara, S Al Said… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
The experimental results on the ratios of branching fractions R (D)= B (B¯→ D τ-ν¯ τ)/B
(B¯→ D ℓ-ν¯ ℓ) and R (D*)= B (B¯→ D* τ-ν¯ τ)/B (B¯→ D* ℓ-ν¯ ℓ), where ℓ denotes an …

Search for singly and pair-produced leptoquarks coupling to third-generation fermions in proton-proton collisions at s= 13 TeV

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, T Bergauer… - Physics Letters B, 2021 - Elsevier
A search for leptoquarks produced singly and in pairs in proton-proton collisions is
presented. We consider the leptoquark (LQ) to be a scalar particle of charge− 1/3e coupling …