Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Birmingham, UK
- Includes the angular analysis of Lambda b-
- Offers in-depth insights into data analysis at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This thesis presents two analyses of semileptonic b → sl+l− decays using Flavour Changing Neutral Currents (FCNCs) to test for the presence of new physics and lepton flavour universality, and the equality of couplings for different leptons, which on the basis of experimental evidence is assumed to hold in the Standard Model, free from uncertainties as a result of knowledge of the hadronic matrix elements. It also includes the angular analysis of Lambda_b->Lambda mumu decay and the RK* measurement, both of which are first measurements, not yet performed by any other experiment.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Luca Pescatore's main interest is fundamental physics including both particle physics and astrophysics but also technology: programming, data analysis, machine learning and electronics. He obtained his master's degree at the University of Bologna, Italy, looking for Quark Gluon plasma signature with the CMS experiment. He then joined the LHCb experiment and continued his studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He was the main author for two papers on rare decays of b hadrons, where new physics can contribute at the level of quantum corrections. Currently he is a researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Searching for New Physics in b → sℓ+ℓ− Transitions at the LHCb Experiment
Authors: Luca Pescatore
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66423-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66422-4Published: 13 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88241-3Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66423-1Published: 04 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 200
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 73 illustrations in colour
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics