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CDF Hot Topics
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.Comment: write-up for the proceedings of the "Flavor Physics & CP Violation
Conference, Vancouver, 2006". 9 pages, 10 figures, to be published in the
Electronic Conference Proceedings Archiv
CKM Parameters and Rare B Decays
Measurements of the angles and sides of the unitarity triangle and of the
rates of rare B meson decays are crucial for the precise determination of
Standard Model parameters and are sensitive to the presence of new physics
particles in the loop diagrams. In this paper the recent measurements performed
in this area by Babar and Belle will be presented. The direct measurement of
the angle alpha is for the first time as precise as the indirect determination.
The precision of the V_ub determination has improved significantly with respect
to previous measurement. New limits on B->tau nu decays are presented, as well
as updated measurements on b->s radiative transitions and a new observation of
b->d gamma transition made by Belle.Comment: Talk presented at the Lepton-Photon 2005 Symposium, June 30-July 5,
Uppsala, Sweden. 14 pages, 13 figure
Mass Corrections to Flavor-Changing Fermion-Graviton Vertices in the Standard Model
In a previous study, the flavor-changing fermion-graviton interactions have
been analyzed in the framework of the standard model, where analytical results
for the relevant form factors were obtained at the leading order in the
external fermion masses. These interactions arise at one-loop level by the
charged electroweak corrections to the fermion-graviton vertex, when the
off-diagonal flavor transitions in the corresponding charged weak currents are
taken into account. Due to the conservation of the energy-momentum tensor, the
corresponding form factors turn out to be finite and gauge invariant when
external fermions are on-shell. Here we extend this previous analysis by
including the exact dependence on the external fermion masses. Complete
analytical results are provided for all the relevant form factors to the
flavor-changing fermion-graviton transitions.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figure
CP and charge asymmetries at CDF
We present CDF results on the branching fractions and time-integrated direct
CP asymmetries for B0 and B0s decay modes into pairs of charmless charged
hadrons (pions or kaons). We report also the first observation of B0s->DsK mode
and the measurement of its branching fraction.Comment: Proceedings of The 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics
Manchester, England 19-25 July 2007. To be published electronically by IoP
Journals. FERMILAB-CONF-07-590-E. Nov 2007. 3p
Measurement of the Masses and Lifetimes of B Hadrons at the Tevatron
The latest results for the B Hadron sector at the Tevatron Collider are
summarized. The properties of B Hadrons can be precisely measured at the
Tevatron. In particularly we will focus on the masses and lifetimes. The new
Tevatron results for the CP violation in B Hadrons will be also discussed.Comment: Proceedings of the 40th Rancontres de Moriond QCD and High Energies
Hadronic Interactions 2006, 4 pages, 3 figure
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