Speaker
Prof.
Stefan Meinel
(University of Arizona / RIKEN BNL Research Center)
Summary
Measurements of $\Lambda_b$ decays at the Large Hadron Collider provide valuable constraints on important quantities
in flavor physics, and can shed new light on ``anomalies'' observed in mesonic $b$ decays. I will review lattice QCD calculations
of form factors describing semileptonic decays of $\Lambda_b$ baryons, and discuss the applications to $|V_{ub}|$ and $|V_{cb}|$ determinations,
tests of lepton flavor universality, and fits of $|\Delta B|=|\Delta S|=1$ Wilson coefficients. I will also present preliminary results for the
new decay channel $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda(1520) \mu^+ \mu^-$.
