Averages of b-hadron, c-hadron, and -lepton properties as of 2018: Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFLAV)

Y Amhis, S Banerjee, E Ben-Haim… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
This paper reports world averages of measurements of b-hadron, c-hadron, and τ τ-lepton
properties obtained by the Heavy Flavour Averaging Group using results available through …

Charged lepton flavour violation: an experimental and theoretical introduction

L Calibbi, G Signorelli - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 2018 - Springer
Charged lepton flavour-violating transitions would be a clear signal of new physics beyond
the Standard Model. Their search has been carried out in a variety of channels, the most …

Averages of -hadron, -hadron, and -lepton properties as of 2021

Y Amhis, S Banerjee, E Ben-Haim, E Bertholet… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
This paper reports world averages of measurements of b-hadron, c-hadron, and τ-lepton
properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group using results available before …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] New physics in rare B decays after Moriond 2021

W Altmannshofer, P Stangl - The European Physical Journal C, 2021 - Springer
The anomalies in rare B decays endure. We present results of an updated global analysis
that takes into account the latest experimental input–in particular the recent results on\(R_K\) …

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 …

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 …

Reading the footprints of the B-meson flavor anomalies

C Cornella, DA Faroughy, J Fuentes-Martin… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Motivated by the recent LHCb announcement of a 3. 1σ violation of lepton-flavor
universality in the ratio RK= Γ (B→ Kμ+ μ−)/Γ (B→ Ke+ e−), we present an updated …

Test of Lepton Universality in Decays

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellan Beteta… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The first simultaneous test of muon-electron universality using B+→ K+ ℓ+ ℓ-and B 0→ K* 0
ℓ+ ℓ-decays is performed, in two ranges of the dilepton invariant-mass squared, q 2. The …

Precise measurement of the ratio of fragmentation fractions and of decay branching fractions

R Aaij, CA Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The ratio of the B s 0 and B 0 fragmentation fractions, fs/fd, in proton-proton collisions at the
LHC, is obtained as a function of B-meson transverse momentum and collision center-of …