Brisure CP/T via les produits triples dans les désintégrations des hadrons à saveur de beauté

Cette thèse est constituée de quatre articles qui ont tous été publiés. Le sujet principal est l’étude d’asymétries de brisure CP/T via les produits triples dans les désintégrations des hadrons contenant un quark b (mésons B ou hypérons Ab) et ce, dans le modèle standard de la physique des particules et au-delà.This thesis is comprised of four articles, ail of which have been published. The main subject is the study, in and beyond the standard model of particle physics, of CP/T-violation via triple products in decays of hadrons containing a b quark (B mesons or Ab hyperons)

T-Violating Triple-Product Correlations in Charmless Lambda_b Decays

Using factorization, we compute, within the standard model, the T-violating triple-product correlations in the charmless decays Lambda_b -> F_1 F_2, where F_1 is a light spin-1/2 baryon and F_2 is a pseudoscalar (P) or vector (V) meson. We find a large triple-product asymmetry of 18% for the decay Lambda_b -> p K^-. However, for other classes of Lambda_b -> F_1 P decays, the asymmetry is found to be at most at the percent level. For Lambda_b -> F_1 V decays, we find that all triple-product asymmetries are small (at most O(1%)) for a transversely-polarized V, and are even smaller for longitudinal polarization. Our estimates of the nonfactorizable contributions to these decays show them to be negligible, and we describe ways of testing this.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX, no figure

New-Physics Effects on Triple-Product Correlations in Lambda_b Decays

We adopt an effective-lagrangian approach to compute the new-physics contributions to T-violating triple-product correlations in charmless Lambda_b decays. We use factorization and work to leading order in the heavy-quark expansion. We find that the standard-model (SM) predictions for such correlations can be significantly modified. For example, triple products which are expected to vanish in the SM can be enormous (~50%) in the presence of new physics. By measuring triple products in a variety of Lambda_b decays, one can diagnose which new-physics operators are or are not present. Our general results can be applied to any specific model of new physics by simply calculating which operators appear in that model.Comment: 20 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Added a paragraph (+ references) discussing nonfactorizable effects. Conclusions unchange