Events in Physics
Tom Blake: Beautiful rare penguins
Location: PLT
Speaker: Tom Blake
I will discuss how unlikely decays of B mesons can be used to look for new particles with masses in the range 100GeV - 10TeV. To set the scene I will briefly touch on the concept of virtual particles in quantum mechanics and what they have already told us about the structure of the Standard Model. I will introduce so-called “penguin" decays and explain why they are of particular interest. Finally, I will conclude by discussing recent results from the LHCb detector at CERN.