Theoretical Status of Rare B Decays with Muons

Abstract

Rare B decays allow to investigate fundamental interactions regarding their flavor, chiral, Dirac and CP properties. In anticipation of the large data samples of exclusive B decays into muons from the forthcoming LHC experiments, in particular LHCb, as well as possible super flavor factories, we review the theoretical status and outline future opportunities to explore the borders of the Standard Model and beyond.

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the proceedings of BEAUTY 2009, the 12th International Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines, September 7-11, 2009, Heidelberg; contains previously unpublished plots with New Physics scans over C_7,9,10^(') from the same production line of arXiv:0805.2525 [hep-ph]