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SUMMARY:Flavor Physics with b-Baryons and B_c Mesons: Opportunities for Di
 scoveries
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UID:indico-event-460@indico.mitp.uni-mainz.de
CONTACT:FPBM2026@uni-mainz.de
DESCRIPTION:The registration will close on 16 February 2026\, 11:59 P.M. C
 ET.\n \n \nExplaining the flavor structure of the Standard Model\, which
  involves ad hoc hierarchical couplings\, remains both a challenge and a p
 ortal for tremendous opportunities. Due to its large mass and long lifetim
 e\, the beauty quark plays a central role in New Physics searches\, with a
 nomalies having appeared in both charged and neutral b-quark transitions.\
 n \nWhile the B-meson sector has been deeply investigated\, the LHC offer
 s unique access to all species of b-hadrons\, including Λb\, Ξb\,  Ωb 
 and Bc. The different spin-structures and/or underlying form factor calcul
 ations are complementary to the B-meson modes. Significant efforts are und
 erway to ensure that the triggerless online DAQ at LHCb during Run 3\, as 
 well as the large parked datasets from ATLAS and CMS can be leveraged to t
 he maximum\, to measure branching fractions\, angular observables\, and le
 pton flavor universality ratios involving these rarer b-hadrons.  \n \n
 Advances are also being made in calculating the hadronic matrix elements t
 hat are needed to connect the decay observables to the underlying short-di
 stance physics. There has also been substantial progress with lattice QCD\
 , dispersive methods\, LCSR\, HQET\, SCET\, and QCD factorization calculat
 ions of the hadronic matrix elements for b-baryon and Bc decays\, alongsid
 e phenomenological studies exploring novel observables and their sensitivi
 ty to new-physics scenarios.\n \nThe workshop\, near the end of LHC Run 3
 \, is well-timed to leverage the availability of new results on these heav
 ier b-hadron decays and will bring together theorists and experimentalists
  to discuss their interpretations.\n\nhttps://indico.mitp.uni-mainz.de/eve
 nt/460/
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LOCATION:02.430 (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics\, Johannes Gutenb
 erg University)
URL:https://indico.mitp.uni-mainz.de/event/460/
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