Friday, February 9, 2024
11:00 - 13:00
In the search for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) of particle
physics heavy beauty particles provide important information. The large
amount of data gathered by the B factories and the LHCb experiment
allows testing the SM with high precision, probing scales much higher
than the reach of direct searches at the LHC. In this sense, beauty
particles can serve as a Telescope in the search for new interactions
and particles. But this can only be achieved by combining the data with
precise and reliable theoretical predictions. Intriguingly, by studying
the decays of beauty particles, we encountered instances where data and
theory did not match: "puzzles". These could be the first sign of a new
interaction, or just a misinterpretation of the data. In this talk, I
will discuss these puzzles and the challenges and new ideas to push the
theoretical precision up, to improve our understanding of particle
physics and hopefully find signals of new particles.
GRAPPA, Nikhef
Nikhef/CWI
Z011
Colloquium
gravitational and astroparticle physics
Keri Vos (UM)