CP3 Lunch -Search for a Strange Phase in Beautiful Oscillations- Dr. Tristan du Pree

Wednesday 15 Dec 2010, 13:00 → 13:50 Europe/Brussels

Cyclotron

The coming years the LHC experiments will really start their hunt for beyond the Standard Model physics. The general purpose experiments CMS and Atlas will, for example, search for yet undiscovered particles by looking for 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, yet undiscovered particles and as such is able to probe beyond the standard model particles in a complimentary way. I will describe the Bs->Jpsiphi decay, one of the key channels of the LHCb experiment the coming years. I will discuss the theoretical motivations for this study, the selection and analysis methods, and the expectation for the coming years, as well as the relationship with CMS studies at CP3.