Narrow Results

Several recent key results from the BABAR experiment are presented, most using 383.6 fb⁻¹ of data. In particular, the search for B⁺ → τ⁺ν, inclusive and exclusive measurements of |V_ub|, measurements of b → dγ decays and new observations of rare charmless hadronic decays. The new results provide important experimental constraints on the Standard Model and new physics models.

The use of the binary tetrahedral group (T′) as flavor symmetry is discussed. I emphasize the CKM quark and PMNS neutrino mixings. I present a novel formula for the Cabibbo angle.

Fermion mass generation in the standard model was invented by Weinberg, while it is an old notion that strong Yukawa coupling could be the agent of electroweak symmetry breaking. Observation of the 126 GeV boson has crashed the prospects for such a heavy chiral quark doublet Q. However, the dilaton possibility can only be ruled out by confirming vector boson fusion with Run 2 data at the LHC, which starts only in 2015. We recast the condensation scenario as Fermi–Yang model v2.0. A Gap Equation has been constructed, with numerical solution demonstrating dynamical m_Q generation; scale invariance of this equation may be consistent with a dilaton. Other consequences to be checked are "annihilation stars," and enhanced B_d →μ⁺μ^-, K_L →π⁰νν, and possibly sin ϕ_s. If verified in Nature, the Agent of BEH mechanism would differ from current perception, the 126 GeV boson would be the first New Physics at the LHC, and we would have enough CP violation for baryogenesis.

In this paper, recent results in the B-physics field achieved using proton–proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=8$ and $13$ TeV collected by CMS are presented. They include the angular analysis of the decay $B^{+}\to K^{\ast +}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ with Run 1 data, new measurements of D and B meson production cross-sections and CP violation studies using $B_s^0$ decays with Run 2 data. The results are compared with the Standard Model predictions. A measurement of the CP-violating phase ${\varphi }_s$ achieved by combining results from both Run 1 and Run 2 data is also presented.