About
Semileptonic b decays to tau leptons provide a powerful probe for violations of charged lepton universality due to physics beyond the standard model. In particular, new particles with Higgs-like enhanced couplings to the third generation fermions may induce large deviations from the well-understood standard model expectations. The decay rates for these processes remain poorly measured compared to the corresponding processes involving the light leptons, and tantalizing but inconclusive hints of a deviation from the Standard Model have been reported. A new measurement of the ratio of branching fractions R(D*)=B(B0 -> D*- tau+ nu)/B(B0 -> D*- mu+ nu) using the LHCb Run 1 dataset is presented, where the tau is selected in the tau+ -> mu+ nu anti-nu decay mode. This is the first measurement of a b -> X tau nu process at a hadron collider. .
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Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Department
- LHC Seminar
- Speaker
- Brian Hamilton
- Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
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