The inspiration for this book came from François le Diberder. During his term as
spokesperson for B 八 B 八 R he laid down a vision for the two B Factory detector …

This work presents a comprehensive overview of the physics of vector boson scattering
(VBS) in the dawn of Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Recalled here are some of …

Global fits to charmless B→ PP decays in the framework of flavor SU (3) symmetry are
updated and improved without reference to the sin 2β measured from the charmonium …

We show that there exist uncanceled soft divergences in the k T factorization for
nonfactorizable amplitudes of two-body nonleptonic B meson decays, similar to those …

New rate measurements of B 0 decays into π 0 π 0, π 0 η, π 0 η′, η η, η η′, η′ η′ and
K+ K-are used in conjunction with flavor SU (3) to constrain the coefficients S and C of sin⁡ …

We calculate the CP-averaged branching ratios and CP-violating asymmetries for B 0→ η η,
η η′ and η′ η′ decays by employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization …

Several major efforts in the field of theoretical and experimental particle physics over the last
century lead to the establishment of the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particle physics …

This thesis presents a search for new long-lived particles decaying to two muons in the
Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector using proton-proton collision data taken at√ s= 13 …

We search for B 0 meson decays into two-body combinations of K 0, η, η′, and ϕ mesons in
324× 10 6 BB¯ pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+ …

We present measurements of branching fractions for five B-meson decays to two-body
charmless final states. The data, collected with the BABAR detector at the Stanford Linear …