Search for a Strange Phase in Beautiful Oscillations
by
Tristan du Pree(UCL)
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Europe/Brussels
Large seminar room : 1G-003 (IIHE(ULB-VUB))
Large seminar room : 1G-003
IIHE(ULB-VUB)
VUB
Description
The hunt for beyond the Standard Model physics has now really started
at the LHC. The main focus of the general purpose experiments CMS and
Atlas will be to search for yet undiscovered particles in a direct
way, for example by searching for new resonances in invariant-mass
spectra.
The LHCb experiment, a dedicated B-physics experiment at the LHC
accelerator, performs searches in a different way: by studying the
behavior of heavy mesons. In this way the experiment is sensitive to
possible off-shell contributions of heavy particles and as such is
able to probe beyond the standard model particles in a complimentary
way.
I will describe the expectations of the CP-violating decays under
study at LHCb, with a focus on the Bs->Jpsiphi decay, one of the key
channels of the LHCb experiment the coming years. I will discuss the
motivations for this study, the analysis methods, and the expectations
for the near future, given recent results of the experiment.
