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Kaon Physics: Theory Overview

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-08-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Kaon decays have played a key role in the construction of the Standard Model and continue to be an important testing ground of the electroweak flavour theory. They can provide new signals of CP-violation phenomena and, perhaps, a window into physics beyond the Standard Model. The interplay of long-distance QCD effects in strangeness-changing transitions can be analyzed, combining the short-distance Operator Product Expansion with Chiral Perturbation Theory techniques. A brief overview is presented, focusing on a few selected decay modes. A more detailed and comprehensive review can be found in arXiv:1107.6001.

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@article{arxiv.1208.2134,
  title  = {Kaon Physics: Theory Overview},
  author = {Antonio Pich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2134},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Invited talk at the XIth International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons 2012 (Prague, June 2012). 10 pages, 8 figures

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