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Introduction to flavour physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-04-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We give a brief introduction to flavour physics. The first part covers the flavour structure of the Standard Model, how the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism is tested and provides examples of searches for new physics using flavour observables, such as meson mixing and rare decays. In the second part we give a brief overview of the recent flavour anomalies and how the Higgs can act as a new flavour probe.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1903.05062,
  title  = {Introduction to flavour physics},
  author = {Jure Zupan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05062},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

32 pages, 22 figures, the write-up is a combination of lectures given at ESHEP 2018, SSI 2018 and the US Belle II summer schools, Fig. 1 corrected, several typographical errors fixed

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