Particle physics: the flavour frontiers

Important historical developments will be discussed, including key flavour physics observables and past experiment built to measure them. The course will delve into present state-of-the-art research and its unresolved problems and will discuss possible ways to address them at present and future flavour physics experiments.

Introduction

key theoretical concepts: the Standard Model, weak interactions, the Yukawa sector, quark-mixing matrix, Unitarity triangles, CP violation

Experimental aspects of flavour physics

past and present flavour-physics facilities and experiments, particle production at accelerators, main experimental principles

Flavour physics in the quark sector

meson decays, neutral meson oscillations, measurements of the angles of the Unitarity triangle, CP violation in meson decays, rare decays of K, B, and D mesons,

Test of the standard model and beyond

CKM fits, New physics flavour puzzle, Lepton Flavour Universality tests, charged lepton flavour violation