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TL;DR

This paper reviews recent results from the CDF experiment on B meson decays, demonstrating its competitive and complementary role in flavor physics compared to B-factories, with new measurements of CP violation and rare decay limits.

Contribution

It presents new measurements of CP asymmetry, B0s decay time-evolution, and limits on rare B meson decays, highlighting CDF's capabilities in flavor physics.

Findings

New CP-violating asymmetry measurement in B0-->K+pi-

First measurement of B0s-->K+K- decay time-evolution

World best limits on B0/B0s-->mu+mu- decay rates

Abstract

After an introduction on the peculiarities of flavor-physics measurements at a hadron collider, and on the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II), I show recent results on two-body B0 and B0s decays into charged, pseudo-scalar, charmless mesons or into muons, to illustrate how the flavor physics program at CDF is competitive with (in B0 decays) and complementary (in B0s decays) to B-factories. Results shown include the new measurement of the CP-violating asymmetry in B0-->K+pi- decays, the first measurement of the time-evolution of B0s-->K+K- decays, and the world best limits on the decay rates of rare B0/B0s-->mu+mu- modes.