Beautiful Physics at LHCb - searches for new physics in the B system
Prof. Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer (Physikalisches Institut, Heidelberg)

Indirect searches for new heavy particles in precision measurements in the flavour sector are a very powerful complementary approach to the direct searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at the high energy frontier, carried out by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider. LHCb is a dedicated B and charm physics experiment devoted to indirect searches for New Physics contributions in quantum corrections. It superceeds in most analyses the precision of all previous B physics experiments. Earlier hints of potential large New Physics contributions e.g. in the Bs mixing phase φs or in the forward-backward asymmetry in the decay B0 → K* μμ have been ruled out. Some new interesting discrepancies e.g. in direct CP violation in D0 decays have been revealed in the LHCb data.
This talk will give an introduction to B physics and present a collection of the latest heavy flavour physics results from the LHCb experiment.