Dr. Martín Novoa-Brunet visits IFIC from 2nd to 5th October 2023.

I am a French/Chilean Particle Physicist PhD at the Paris-Saclay University under the supervision of Sébastien Descotes-Genon. I currently hold my first postdoctoral fellowship at INFN Bari in the QFT-HEP group and I will be soon starting a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship at IFIC. My research activities focus on the theory and phenomenology of fundamental interactions and on quark and lepton flavor physics. My main research interest is the search for New Physics (NP), through an Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach, that can unveil the origin of the flavour structure of the Standard Model (SM). In the past I have worked, in between other subjects, on the b-anomalies, Heavy Quark Effective Field Theory, QCD Factorisation, CP-violating New Physics, Minimal Flavour Violation and Meson Mixing in Semileptonic decays.

He will be located at Institutos Paterna, B-2-1.

Topical seminar:

Title: b->svv in the SMEFT and (G)MFV in light of new Belle II results

Abstract: We discuss the b->svv modes and related decays, in the context of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory and the under the General Minimal Flavour Violation Hypothesis. We show the correlations in this framework for b->svv, s->dvv and b->sl+l- modes, and we discuss how the recent measurement of the B->Kvv branching fraction by the Belle II experiment, in tension with the SM prediction (2.8 sigma), affect these hypotheses. We then discuss the possible NP structures that could account for the observed deviation.

Day: Thursday 5 Oct 2023, at 12h00

Location: 1001-Primera-1-1-1 - Paterna. Seminario (Universe)

More information: https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/7194/