Precision Flavour Physics with B Decays into Light Vector Mesons [Prof. Gerhard Buchalla, Munich (LMU)]

Thursday 6 Nov 2008, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Brussels

Charmless hadronic B-meson decays provide us with many opportunities to probe the quark flavour sector and to look for signals of physics beyond the standard model. From the theoretical point of view in particular the decays into a pair of longitudinally polarized vector mesons are very promising. We discuss the theory of $B\to V_LV_L$ decays as well as important applications. Measurements of CP violation give interesting results for CKM parameters already at present, among them one of the currently most precise values for $|V_{ub}|$. Future experiments have the potential to lead to unprecedented levels of accuracy and crucial new physics tests.

Slides louvain08.pdf