Rare decays at LHCb

Abstract

Rare decays are flavour changing neutral current processes that are loop-suppressed in the Standard Model (SM). New particles in SM extensions can therefore give significant contributions, modifying branching fractions and angular distributions. Consequently, rare decays are particularly sensitive probes for New Physics (NP). These proceedings summarize the latest results from the LHCb experiment on rare decays. While most results are in good agreement with SM predictions, some tensions that recently appeared in rare semileptonic $b\to s{\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}$ decays are also discussed.

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the 51st Rencontres de Moriond, QCD Session, 19-26 March 2016