Conveners
Flavor II
- Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)
B decays form an ideal playground for indirect effects of new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). At present there are several examples where experimental results deviate from the SM predictions. If these anomalies persist, new avenues will be necessary to pinpoint the nature of new physics. I will discuss a couple of B-decay channels, hadronic and semileptonic, where progress has been...
I will discuss the resonant production and detection of charged mesons in existing and near-future neutrino scattering experiments with $E_\nu \lesssim 1$ TeV, characteristic of high-energy atmospheric neutrinos or collider-sourced neutrino beams.
The most promising candidate is the reaction $\bar{\nu}_e e^-\rightarrow \rho^-\rightarrow \pi^- \pi^0$. I will discuss detection prospects at...
The QCD axion is a well-motivated addition to the standard model to solve the strong $CP$ problem. If the axion acquires mass dominantly from a hidden sector, it can be as heavy as $O(1)$ GeV, and the decay constant can be as low as $O(100)$ GeV without running into the axion quality problem. We propose new search strategies for such heavy QCD axions at the Belle II experiment, where the...
Experimental hints for lepton-flavor universality violation in the muon's magnetic moment as well as neutral- and charged-current $B$-meson decays require Standard-Model extensions by particles such as leptoquarks that generically lead to unacceptably fast rates of charged lepton flavor violation and proton decay. We propose a model based on a gauged $U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau}$ that eliminates all...
