B Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Abstract
Description
The ability of present and future experiments to test the Standard Model in the $B$ meson sector is described. We examine the loop effects of new interactions in flavor changing neutral current $B$ decays and in $Z\to b\bar b$, concentrating on supersymmetry and the left-right symmetric model as specific examples of new physics scenarios. The procedure for performing a global fit to the Wilson coefficients which describe $b\to s$ transitions is outlined, and the results of such a fit from Monte Carlo generated data is compared to the predictions of our two sample new physics scenarios. A fit to the $Zb\bar b$ couplings from present data is also given.
18 pages, LaTex, Based on presentations given at the Workshop on Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Beyond the Desert: Accelerator and Nonaccelerator Approaches, Tegernsee, Germany, June 8-14, 1997; 20th Anniversary Symposium: Twenty Beautiful Years of Bottom Physics, Chicago, IL, June 29 - July 2, 1997; and the 7th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, July 7-11, 1997
18 pages, LaTex, Based on presentations given at the Workshop on Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Beyond the Desert: Accelerator and Nonaccelerator Approaches, Tegernsee, Germany, June 8-14, 1997; 20th Anniversary Symposium: Twenty Beautiful Years of Bottom Physics, Chicago, IL, June 29 - July 2, 1997; and the 7th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, July 7-11, 1997