Rare Strange and Charm Decays at LHCb

Abstract

Thanks to the large cross-section for the production of strange and charm mesons at the Large Hadron Collider, LHCb has recently performed several new explorations of rare transitions that are highly suppressed or forbidden by the Standard Model: mostly flavour changing neutral current decays, but also lepton flavour violating decays. Physics beyond the Standard Model could contribute at tree and loop levels.