Flavor Physics in the Quark Sector
Abstract
One of the major challenges of particle physics has been to gain an in-depth understanding of the role of quark flavor and measurements and theoretical interpretations of their results have advanced tremendously: apart from masses and quantum numbers of flavor particles, there now exist detailed measurements of the characteristics of their interactions allowing stringent tests of Standard Model predictions. Among the most interesting phenomena of flavor physics is the violation of the CP symmetry that has been subtle and difficult to explore. Till early 1990s observations of CP violation were confined to neutral mesons, but since then a large number of CP-violating processes have been studied in detail in neutral mesons. In parallel, measurements of the couplings of the heavy quarks and the dynamics for their decays in large samples of , and mesons have been greatly improved in accuracy and the results are being used as probes in the search for deviations from the Standard Model. In the near future, there will be a transition from the current to a new generation of experiments, thus a review of the status of quark flavor physics is timely. This report summarizes the results of the current generation of experiments that is about to be completed and it confronts these results with the theoretical understanding of the field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.5386,
title = {Flavor Physics in the Quark Sector},
author = {M. Antonelli and D. M. Asner and D. Bauer and T. Becher and M. Beneke and A. J. Bevan and M. Blanke and C. Bloise and M. Bona and A. Bondar and C. Bozzi and J. Brod and A. J. Buras and N. Cabibbo and A. Carbone and G. Cavoto and V. Cirigliano and M. Ciuchini and J. P. Coleman and D. P. Cronin-Hennessy and J. P. Dalseno and C. H. Davies and F. DiLodovico and J. Dingfelder and Z. Dolezal and S. Donati and W. Dungel and U. Egede and G. Eigen and R. Faccini and T. Feldmann and F. Ferroni and J. M. Flynn and E. Franco and M. Fujikawa and I. K. Furic and P. Gambino and E. Gardi and T. J. Gershon and S. Giagu and E. Golowich and T. Goto and C. Greub and C. Grojean and D. Guadagnoli and U. A. Haisch and R. F. Harr and A. H. Hoang and T. Hurth and G. Isidori and D. E. Jaffe and A. Jüttner and S. Jäger and A. Khodjamirian and P. Koppenburg and R. V. Kowalewski and P. Krokovny and A. S. Kronfeld and J. Laiho and G. Lanfranchi and T. E. Latham and J. Libby and A. Limosani and D. Lopes Pegna and C. D. Lu and V. Lubicz and E. Lunghi and V. G. Lüth and K. Maltman and W. J. Marciano and E. C. Martin and G. Martinelli and F. Martinez-Vidal and A. Masiero and V. Mateu and F. Mescia and G. Mohanty and M. Moulson and M. Neubert and H. Neufeld and S. Nishida and N. Offen and M. Palutan and P. Paradisi and Z. Parsa and E. Passemar and M. Patel and B. D. Pecjak and A. A. Petrov and A. Pich and M. Pierini and B. Plaster and A. Powell and S. Prell and J. Rademaker and M. Rescigno and S. Ricciardi and P. Robbe and E. Rodrigues and M. Rotondo and R. Sacco and C. J. Schilling and O. Schneider and E. E. Scholz and B. A. Schumm and C. Schwanda and A. J. Schwartz and B. Sciascia and J. Serrano and J. Shigemitsu and I. J. Shipsey and A. Sibidanov and L. Silvestrini and F. Simonetto and S. Simula and C. Smith and A. Soni and L. Sonnenschein and V. Sordini and M. Sozzi and T. Spadaro and P. Spradlin and A. Stocchi and N. Tantalo and C. Tarantino and A. V. Telnov and D. Tonelli and I. S. Towner and K. Trabelsi and P. Urquijo and R. S. Van de Water and R. J. Van Kooten and J. Virto and G. Volpi and R. Wanke and S. Westhoff and G. Wilkinson and M. Wingate and Y. Xie and J. Zupan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.5386},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Report of the CKM workshop, Rome 9-13th Sep. 2008, 340 pages, 106 postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Repts