Speaker
Sam Cunliffe
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Description
Rare, and flavor-changing neutral current B decays are an important probe in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. There have recently been several anomalies in rare B decays, and lepton-universality measurements, specifically involving the b → sl+l− quark transition. These results tend towards a non-Standard-Model interpretation.
The Belle II experiment is a next-generation B-physics experiment located at SuperKEKB, an upgraded B-factory e+e− collider, in Tsukuba, Japan. The first data are expected in early 2018. This talk will describe prospects for many rare B decays at Belle II including b → sl+l− processes and others, such as b → (s, d)γ, b → sττ, and b → sνν. Areas where the Belle II program is complementary to the currently running LHCb experiment will be highlighted.
Primary author
Sam Cunliffe
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)