Speaker
Fabio Ferrari
(BO)
Description
Semileptonic decays of beauty hadrons have recently attracted great interest due to some persistent anomalies which have been found by BaBar, Belle and LHCb. Comparisons of decay rates of $B$ mesons to final states with a tau or a muon are in tension with the expectation from the Standard Model, thus providing hints on lepton-flavour non-universality, implying the existence of new physics effects. The LHCb experiment is in an excellent position to perform such measurements, owing to the enormous amount of semileptonic b-hadron decays collected during the LHC runs 1 and 2. In this talk, the challenges to perform analyses of semileptonic $B$ decays at a hadron collider will be outlined, and the latest LHCb results will be presented.
Primary author
Fabio Ferrari
(BO)
