Direct and indirect searches for New Physics

Abstract

An overview of the indirect constraints from flavour physics on supersymmetric models is presented. We study in particular constraints from Bs -> mu+mu- and B -> K* mu+mu-, emphasising on the new LHCb results. We show that these rare transitions provide valuable information in the search for new physics and are complementary to the direct searches.

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures. Contribution to Moriond QCD 2012 proceedings