Waiting for Clear Signals of New Physics in B and K Decays

Abstract

We classify the extensions of the Standard Model (SM) according to the structure of local operators in the weak effective Hamiltonian and the presence or absence of new flavour and CP-violating interactions beyond those represented by the CKM matrix. In particular we review characteristic properties of models with minimal flavour violation (MFV), models with significant contributions from Higgs penguins and models with enhanced Z^0 penguins carrying a large new CP-violating phase. Within the latter models, the anomalous behaviour of certain B\toπK observables implies large departures from the SM predictions for rare and CP-violating K and B decays. Most spectacular is the enhancement of Br(K_L->pi^0 nu nubar) by one order of magnitude and a strong violation of the MFV relation (\sin2β)_{πν\barν}=(\sin2β)_{ψK_S}. On the other hand our prediction for (\sin2β)_{ϕK_S}\approx 0.9 differs from the Belle result by the sign but is consistent with the BaBar value. We give a personal shopping list for the coming years.

Main latex-file, 4 figures, 22 pages

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• Waiting for Precise Measurements of K^+->pi^+ nu nu and K_L->pi^0 nu nu
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