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Speaker: Josef Sorenson (University of New Mexico) – Title: Rare B Meson Decays and Precision Timing for Future Colliders
December 2 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Research Progress Meeting
Date: December 2, 2025
Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm
Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 [In-Person and HYBRID]
Speaker: Josef Sorenson (University of New Mexico)
Title: Rare B Meson Decays and Precision Timing for Future Colliders
Abstract: Flavor Changing Neutral Currents (FCNCs) are suppressed in the Standard Model (SM). Approximately one in ten billion neutral B mesons decays into pairs of oppositely charged muons. This suppression, combined with the precise theoretical SM predictions, makes this decay a promising channel to search for New Physics. I will present progress towards the latest measurement of the decay of B mesons to muon pairs using the ATLAS Run 2 dataset. The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) provides an excellent opportunity for measuring this channel, with an expected 3000 fb-1 of p-p collision data. I will present R&D towards precision timing sensors and electronics to deal with the adverse radiation and pileup environments in the HL-LHC and future colliders.
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