New Physics Phenomena and F-theory GUTs

Abstract

In this presentation the new physics implications of the $B$-meson decay anomalies, observed at LHCb, are discussed. In the first part of the talk a brief overview of the experimental status is presented. In the second part, a class of semi-local F-theory GUT models with additional neutral gauge bosons are proposed which are capable of accounting for the anomalous $B$-decay ratios $R_K$ and $R_{K^{\ast }}$

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures. Talk at the "Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond", 2-10 September 2017, Corfu, Greece