Flavor Physics and the Tev Scale

by Hou, George W. S.

• ISBN13: 9783540927914
• ISBN10: 3540927913
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This monograph treats the usefulness of flavor physics as probes of the TeV scale, with the aim of providing a timely introduction to the emerging LHC era. By concentrating only with the TeV scale connection, a large part of the B factory output can be bypassed. The emphasis here is on loop-induced processes, which enables the probing of virtual TeV scale physics through quantum processes. Two-thirds of the book is concerned with b s or bs bs transitions. It takes an experimental perspective resulting in selecting processes, rather than the theories or models, as the basis to explore flavor physics as probe of the TeV scale. The guiding principle has been, unless it can be identified as the smoking gun, it is better to stick to the simplest (rather than elaborate) explanation of an effect that requires New Physics. Luckily, focusing on heavy flavor as a probe of TeV scale physics, these technicalities can be engaged, thus acknowledging their beauty, but avoiding getting ensnared by them, while aiming for the deeper, higher scale physics that such probes afford. This tracts orinated as a plenary talk at the SUSY 2007 conference in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Outline, Strategy, and Apologies	p. 2
A Parable: What if?	p. 4
The Template: $$, Heavy Top, and Vtd	p. 6
References	p. 9
CP Violation in Charmless b $$ Transitions	p. 11
The $$ Problem	p. 11
Measurement of TCPV at the B Factories	p. 12
TCPV in Charmless b $$ Modes	p. 15
The $$ Problem	p. 18
Measurement of DCPV in B $$ K $$ Decay	p. 18
$$ and New Physics	p. 21
Acp (B $$ $$ K $$)	p. 26
An Appraisal	p. 29
References	p. 30
Bs Mixing and sin 2$$	p. 33
Bs Mixing Measurement	p. 34
Standard Model Expectations	p. 34
D$$ Measurement of $$	p. 38
CDF Observation of B$$-B$$ Oscillations	p. 40
Search for TCPV in Bs System	p. 42
$$$$ Approach to $$Bs: cos 2 $$	p. 43
Prospects for sin 2 $$ Measurement	p. 44
Can sin $$ > 0.5?	p. 46
Hints at Tevatron in 2008	p. 50
References	p. 54
H$$ Probes: $$ and B $$	p. 57
b $$	p. 57
QCD Enhancement and the CLEO Observation	p. 57
Measurement of b $$ at the B Factories	p. 59
Implications	p. 61
$$ and D(*) $$	p. 63
Enhanced H$$ Effect in b $$ and B $$	p. 64
B $$ and B $$ D$$ Measurement	p. 66
References	p. 71
Electroweak Penguin: bsZ Vertex, Z', Dark Matter	p. 73
AFB $$ K $$)	p. 73
Observation of m1 Enhancement of $$	p. 73
B Factory Measurements of AFB B $$ K $$)	p. 77
B $$ K(*)vv	p. 82
Experimental Search	p. 83
Constraint on Light Dark Matter	p. 84
References	p. 86
Right-Handed Currents and Scalar Interactions	p. 87
TCPV in B $$	p. 87
Bs $$	p. 90
References	p. 92
Bottomonium Decay and New Physics	p. 93
$$ Nothing	p. 93
$$ Search	p. 96
References	p. 99
D and K Systems: Box and EWP Redux	p. 101
$$ Mixing	p. 101
SM Expectations and Observation at B Factories	p. 102
Interpretation and Prospects	p. 107
K $$ Decays	p. 109
Current Status	p. 110
Future Prospects	p. 112
References	p. 114
Lepton Number Violating $$ and $$ Decay	p. 115
$$	p. 115
$$	p. 117
$$	p. 119
References	p. 121
Discussion and Conclusion	p. 123
From Unparticles to Extending the Standard Model	p. 123
Fourth Generation-CPV for Heaven and Earth?	p. 125
New Physics CPV on Earth: from $$ to sin $$	p. 125
Jarlskog Invariant for Three Generations	p. 128
New Physics CPV for the Heavens: Fourth Generation for BAU!?	p. 129
Litmus Test on Earth: Search for $$ and $$	p. 130
Summary and Conclusion	p. 132
References	p. 133
A CP Violation Primer	p. 135
Generalities	p. 135
Illustration: Direct CP Violation	p. 138
Time-Dependent CP Violation	p. 139
References	p. 140
Index	p. 141
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