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Searching for New Physics in b → sℓ+ℓ− Transitions at the LHCb Experiment

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Authors:
  1. Luca Pescatore

    1. Department of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • 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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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.

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Luca Pescatore
    Pages 1-21

  3. The LHCb Detector at the Large Hadron Collider

    • Luca Pescatore
    Pages 23-43

  4. Differential Branching Fraction of \(\varLambda ^0_b \rightarrow \varLambda \mu ^+\mu ^- \)

    • Luca Pescatore
    Pages 45-83

  5. Angular Analysis of \({\varLambda }^{0}_{{b} } \rightarrow \varLambda {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-} \) Decays

    • Luca Pescatore
    Pages 85-104

  6. Testing Lepton Flavour Universality with \({\mathcal R}_{{K} ^{*0}} \)

    • Luca Pescatore
    Pages 105-157

  7. Conclusions

    • Luca Pescatore
    Pages 159-161

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 163-200
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Luca Pescatore

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

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