Using Heavy Flavors To Study New Physics

<p>In this doctoral dissertation I discuss the possible standard model contributions to select leptonic heavy meson decay modes. Included are calculations of soft photon contributions to a di-lepton decay of B-mesons as well as two-particle hadronic unitary contributions to the rare di-leptonic decay of the neutral D meson. Additionally, constraints are calculated for two super-WIMP dark matter models from rare heavy flavor decays.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Physics and Astronomy

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Healey, Kristopher Jason

Contributors dc:contributor

• Alexey A. Petrov

• Dark Matter
• Heavy Flavor
• New Physics
• Rare Decay
• Standard Model
• Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory
• Other Physics
• Physics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/726

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wayne.edu:oa_dissertations-1725