Investigating the polarisation puzzle with B0(s) -> K*K* decays at LHCb
- đ¤ Speaker: Matthew Monk, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 28 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
- đ Venue: Ray Dolby Center -- Seminar Room: D2.002
Abstract
Charmless decays of a B meson to two vector particles offer many different avenues to explore the Standard Model. There has been a longstanding discrepancy between experimental measurements of the longitudinal polarisation fractions in charmless B->VV decays, both between the experimental measurements of different decays and with SM predictions, which has been dubbed the “polarisation puzzle”. In this talk, I will present results from a recent LHCb analysis, updating branching fraction and polarisation fraction measurements in both Bd and Bs decays to a Kstar Kstarbar final state.
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Tuesday 28 October 2025, 11:00-12:00