Prospects for B-Decay Studies at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper discusses the potential for B-meson decay studies at the LHC, emphasizing their importance in testing the Standard Model and exploring new physics through key decay channels of B_s mesons.

Contribution

It provides an overview of theoretical aspects of B-meson decay channels and evaluates the potential for discovering new physics based on recent experimental results.

Findings

Recent experimental results constrain new physics effects

B_s meson decays are promising for future studies

Theoretical analysis of key decay channels

Abstract

In this decade, there are huge efforts to explore B-meson decays, which offer interesting probes to test the quark-flavour structure of the Standard Model and to search for signals of new physics. Exciting new perspectives for these studies will soon arise at the LHC, where decays of $B^0_s$ mesons will be a key target of the B-physics programme. We will discuss theoretical aspects of various benchmark channels and address the question of how much space for new-physics effects in their observables is left by the recent experimental results from the B factories and the Tevatron.