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arxiv: 1208.3057 · v1 · pith:ZKOCCPREnew · submitted 2012-08-15 · ✦ hep-ph

Theory status of bto s ell^+ell^- decays and their combined analysis

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The experimental information on b --> s l^+ l^- decays has grown enormously during the last couple of years due to BaBar, Belle, CDF and LHCb. Especially, exclusive modes B --> K^(*) l^+ l^-, which have the largest rate and are easily accessible experimentally, provide a variety of observables which constrain non-standard interactions that would affect these flavour-changing neutral current decays beyond the Standard Model. Nowadays, theoretical predictions focus on low- and high dilepton invariant mass regions, where expansions in Lambda_QCD/m_b and form factor symmetries provide means to identify optimised observables. The first experimental results of non-optimised observables have stimulated first global analysis of b --> s l^+ l^- decays in combination with b --> s photon and B_s --> mu^+ mu^-. Such global analysis are now ready to be applied to include high-statistics results from LHCb and Super-Flavour factories which are about to come within the next years.

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