1998/03/17 by J. L. Hewett, J.A.L. Hewett, Hewett, J. L.
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9803370
18 pages, LaTex, Based on presentations given at the Workshop on Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Beyond the Desert: Accelerator and Nonaccelerator Approaches, Tegernsee, Germany, June 8-14, 1997; 20th Anniversary Symposium: Twenty Beautiful Years of Bottom Physics, Chicago, IL, June 29 - July 2, 1997; and the 7th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, July 7-11, 1997
The ability of present and future experiments to test the Standard Model in the B meson sector is described. We examine the loop effects of new interactions in flavor changing neutral current B decays and in Z→ b b, concentrating on supersymmetry and the left-right symmetric model as specific examples of new physics scenarios. The procedure for performing a global fit to the Wilson coefficients which describe b→ s transitions is outlined, and the results of such a fit from Monte Carlo generated data is compared to the predictions of our two sample new physics scenarios. A fit to the Zb b couplings from present data is also given.