Is there a non-standard-model contribution in non-leptonic b to s decays?

Abstract

The data on high-precision flavour observables reveal certain puzzles when compared to Standard Model expectations based on a global fit of the CKM unitarity triangle and general theoretical estimates. The discussion of these tensions in the channels B to J/psi K, B to phi K, and B to pi K, and the deduced constraints for New Physics operators of the class (bs)(qq) form the content of this talk.

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures; To appear in the proceedings of the FlaviaNet workshop ``Low energy constraints on extensions of the Standard Model'', 23-27 July 2009, Kazimierz, Poland