B, D and K decays

G. Buchalla , T. K. Komatsubara , F. Muheim , L. Silvestrini (1) , M. Artuso , D. M. Asner , P. Ball , E. Baracchini , G. Bell , M. Beneke , J. Berryhill , A. Bevan , I. I. Bigi , M. Blanke , Ch. Bobeth , M. Bona (2) , F. Borzumati , T. Browder , T. Buanes , O. Buchmuller , A. J. Buras , S. Burdin , D. G. Cassel , R. Cavanaugh , M. Ciuchini (3) , P. Colangelo , G. Crosetti , A. Dedes , F. de Fazio , S. Descotes-Genon (4) , J. Dickens , Z. Dolezal , S. Durr , U. Egede , C. Eggel , G. Eigen , S. Fajfer (5) , Th. Feldmann , R. Ferrandes , P. Gambino , T. Gershon , V. Gibson , M. Giorgi , V. V. Gligorov , B. Golob , A. Golutvin , Y. Grossman , D. Guadagnoli , U. Haisch , M. Hazumi , S. Heinemeyer , G. Hiller , D. Hitlin , T. Huber , T. Hurth , T. Iijima , A. Ishikawa , G. Isidori , S. Jager , A. Khodjamirian , P. Koppenburg , T. Lagouri , U. Langenegger , C. Lazzeroni , A. Lenz , V. Lubicz (3) , W. Lucha , H. Mahlke , D. Melikhov , F. Mescia , M. Misiak , M. Nakao , J. Napolitano , N. Nikitin , U. Nierste , K. Oide , Y. Okada , P. Paradisi , F. Parodi (6) , M. Patel , A. A. Petrov , T. N. Pham (7) , M. Pierini (8) , S. Playfer , G. Polesello , A. Policicchio , A. Poschenrieder , P. Raimondi , S. Recksiegel , P. Reznicek , A. Robert (9) , J. L. Rosner , G. Ruggiero , A. Sarti , O. Schneider , F. Schwab , S. Simula , S. Sivoklokov , Pietro Slavich (10, 8) , C. Smith (11) , M. Smizanska , A. Soni , T. Speer , P. Spradlin , M. Spranger , A. Starodumov , B. Stech , A. Stocchi (12) , S. Stone , C. Tarantino , F. Teubert , S. t'Jampens (2) , K. Toms , Karim Trabelsi , S. Trine , S. Uhlig , V. Vagnoni (13) , J. J. van Hunen , G. Weiglein , A. Weiler , G. Wilkinson , Y. Xie (14) , M. Yamauchi , G. Zhu , J. Zupan , R. Zwicky

1 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Sezione di Roma 1]
2 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
3 INFN, Sezione di Roma 3 - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma 3
4 LPT - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique d'Orsay [Orsay]
5 IJS - Jozef Stefan Institute [Ljubljana]
6 INFN, Sezione di Genova - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova
7 X - École polytechnique
8 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
9 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
10 LAPTH - Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique
11 UNIBE - Universität Bern / University of Bern
12 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
13 INFN, Sezione di Bologna - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna
14 Edin. - University of Edinburgh

With the advent of the LHC, we will be able to probe New Physics (NP) up to energy scales almost one order of magnitude larger than it has been possible with present accelerator facilities. While direct detection of new particles will be the main avenue to establish the presence of NP at the LHC, indirect searches will provide precious complementary information, since most probably it will not be possible to measure the full spectrum of new particles and their couplings through direct production. In particular, precision measurements and computations in the realm of flavour physics are expected to play a key role in constraining the unknown parameters of the Lagrangian of any NP model emerging from direct searches at the LHC. The aim of Working Group 2 was twofold: on one hand, to provide a coherent, up-to-date picture of the status of flavour physics before the start of the LHC; on the other hand, to initiate activities on the path towards integrating information on NP from high-pT and flavour data.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Phénoménologie [hep-ph]

G. Buchalla, T. K. Komatsubara, F. Muheim, L. Silvestrini, M. Artuso, et al.. B, D and K decays. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2008, 57, pp.309-492. ⟨10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0716-1⟩. ⟨hal-00204334⟩