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CP symmetries in rare decays of beauty mesons

Project description

Capturing CP violations in rare decays

Flavour-changing neutral currents are hypothetical interactions that change the flavour of a fermion without altering its electric charge. These transitions are forbidden in the Standard Model and can only occur via loop diagrams. A prominent example of such rare transitions involves the decay of a b quark into an s quark and two leptons. Funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions programme, the ASymmetryNamedCP project, leveraging experimental measurements of observables related to B meson mixing and CP violations, aims to tag for the first time the flavour of the B meson that decays into two muons. In addition, a new method of calibrating the decay times at the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment will be developed and tested.

Objective

In the recent years, measurements of rare B decays involving b->sll transitions have shown discrepancies compared to predictions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. These transitions are flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNC): they are forbidden at tree level in the SM and therefore sensitive to contributions of new particles in loops. Global fits to these data suggest new physics contributions that can be explained new physics models involving a tree-level exchange of a lepto-quark or a flavor changing $Z^\prime$ boson. In the decay of neutral Bs meson to a CP eigenstate, the interference between the decay and the B-meson mixing leads to additional observables that are not accessible to flavor specific final states. In the SM, all CP-violating effects are expected to be very small, therefore these observables can make powerful contributions to our understanding of the B-anomalies as they can differ significantly depending on the properties of new physics contributions. This project will measureme the CP violating observables arising in the interference of the decay and mixing of Bs mesons using a tagged analysis for the first time in phimumu decays using full LHCb data set which corresponds to 9 inverse-fb. Additionally a new method to calibrate decay time resolution at LHCb will be developed and tested on run 1-2 data collected at LHCb and will be ready to use for the run 3 which is expected to start at the end of 2021.

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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2020

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UNIVERSITAT ZURICH
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€ 191 149,44
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RAMISTRASSE 71
8006 Zurich
Switzerland

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Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Zürich Zürich
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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