Abstract

Use of semi-leptonic decays has become standard in constraining the Unitarity Triangle. Bearing in mind that precise calculations of these are very challenging, we propose an entirely new approach. In particular the |Vcb| + epsilon\_K constraint, which depends extremely sensitively on Vcb in the traditional method, is replaced by the interplay between epsilon\_K, BR(B ->tau nu) and Delta M\_Bs. It is found that even in this method tensions with the Standard Model persist at the 2 sigma level. Furthermore, improvements on the B -> tau nu branching ratio and on the lattice determination of f\_Bs Bs^(1/2) can increase the effectiveness of this method significantly.

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