Decays of beautiful hadrons

by Federico Cima (Caltech)

Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 12:30 → 14:30 America/Los_Angeles

48/2-224 - Madrone (SLAC)

In this talk, I will present some recent progress on some classes of heavy hadron decays. I will present a comprehensive study of radiative semileptonic b-hadron decays, semileptonic decays accompanied by an additional photon in the final state. Modeling these decays is important for current and future B-factories, as they constitute an unavoidable background for ordinary semileptonic decays when the photon goes undetected. Time permitting, I will also discuss charmless B decays to light pseudo-scalar mesons and how these can be used to test the size of U-spin breaking.