2011

Flavor physics and lattice quantum chromodynamics

Lellouch, Laurent

Understand

The course begins with an introduction to the Standard Model, viewed as an effective field theory.

  • Experimental and theoretical limits on the energy scales at which New Physics can appear, as well as current constraints on quark flavor parameters, are reviewed.
  • The role of lattice QCD in obtaining these constraints is described.
  • A second section is devoted to explaining the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism for quark flavor mixing and CP violation, and to detailing its most salient features.

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