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Rare Decays of Heavy Baryons using Soft Collinear Effective Theory

YIP, MATTHEW WING YU (2013) Rare Decays of Heavy Baryons using Soft Collinear Effective Theory. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.

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Abstract

In the era of high-luminosity hadronic colliders, the rare heavy-to-light decay Lambda_b to Lambda l+ l- receives increasing research attention in both experimental and theoretical particle phenomenology. This flavour-changing neutral-current decay is a potential window for the discovery of new Physics beyond the Standard Model through its helicity-sensitive nature, complementing past and ongoing searches and calculations related to the B meson.

In this work the universal soft form factor in the heavy-quark and large-recoil limits is calculated using light-cone sum rules in the framework of soft-collinear effective theory, as is the O(alpha_s) correction from hard-collinear gluon exchange.
Numerical estimates on form-factor ratios and experimental observables are presented. Related issues, including baryonic transition form factors and in particular light-cone distribution amplitudes for the heavy baryon Lambda_b, are also discussed.

Item Type:Thesis (Doctoral)
Award:Doctor of Philosophy
Keywords:Particle Physics, Theoretical Physics, Flavour Physics
Faculty and Department:Faculty of Science > Physics, Department of
Thesis Date:2013
Copyright:Copyright of this thesis is held by the author
Deposited On:30 Aug 2013 09:09

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